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 a scene out. They don't do that on stage

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.

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

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

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

Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.

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

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

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!

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.

Flow wherever you go. You can’t be limited. Dare to rise above all limitations and become better than you were. Strive to arrive at the top.

If stupidity were a gift, only a few would have it.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living

The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.

I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

Exercise is an incredible key to feeling well.

Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.

...the change was adjustment without improvement.