The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

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.

If I could read it, I could play it.

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

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.

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.

You've got to change with the public's taste.

I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

Markets don't allow you to hang about.

Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good. We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves.

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

I've always dipped my finger in so many things.

A really good horror film has a story.

Nothing wrong with pop!

Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I just go with it.

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?

Harm set harm get.

We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!

Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

This is universal. You sit and observe your breath. You can’t say this is a Hindu breath or a Christian breath or a Muslim breath.