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.

If I could read it, I could play it.

Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!

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

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.

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