You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do..

If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight..

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in h….

After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to kee….

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart….