I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

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.

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?