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.
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
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.
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.