My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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.
Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.
You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.