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

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!

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

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

You hung around the tattered edges of my soul, that's where you preferred to be...

In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.

Cowards dare others to do what they themselves do not dare to do.

Don't assume I'm dumb because I wear a suit and tie.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

Only grown-up men are scared of women.

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.