I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.

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.

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

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