I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

You've got to change with the public's taste.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.