The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

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

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.

I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.

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

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

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