I'm a real rebel with a cause.

The Beatles are lucky, very lucky. But what has happened to them has nothing to do with them, in a sense. They came along at the right time. Attention was focused on them. They've had the chance to grow in almost any direction they wanted. Very lucky. They are not exceptionally talented.

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

Desegregation is a joke.