I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy..

My view is that you cannot close your mind and say I don't want to listen to this or that. Because if you can't appreciate the bad for being bad, you….

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pit….

Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anyt….

You can't sing about love unless you know about it..

If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music..

You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have….

My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her feet we….

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than oth….

I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story….

I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last..

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different..

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that l….

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. Th….

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like….

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital..

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music..

I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did..

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside..

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice..