There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.