I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.

I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.

I still got my Ferrari.

If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

If you have to ask, you'll never know.