But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.