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.

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

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

Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.

If I could read it, I could play it.

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.

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.