We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough..

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd..

That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody kn….

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in t….

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club..

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take….

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.

Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!.

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club..

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it..

Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely..

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of co….

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous v….

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians..

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times..