I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.
Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.
I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.