Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

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

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

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.