Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.