Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
First you imitate, then you innovate.
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don't like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make 'em a lot of money.