Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.

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.

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.

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

But, I tell myself, Weight is just an artifact of gravity. If this were a jazz club on the moon, I would weigh less.

It's only when you learn, live and give sincere service that you can experience life's deepest fulfillment and true joy

He leaned over, catching her lowered gaze. “I’m the present, Darlin’.

The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.

You must know that with a good heart you can never be a poor person! And you must also know that with a bad heart it is impossible to be a rich person! Goodness enriches

If you try to shut down your angel guidance, that's the path to feeling unhappy and results in addiction.

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.