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 a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

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

If I could read it, I could play it.

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

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.