People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.

Like Ron Lorman's always sayin', "Na-na-na-na-na," you know what I mean? I don't need that in the studio.

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.

That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.

I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

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.