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.

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.

Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile

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

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

Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.

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