"The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed. While the Weary Blues echoed through his head."

"The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it."

"My life has been a long song."

"I remember the days when I was a kid and I used to go to the movies and sit in the balcony. And I would see the white kids downstairs, and I would be up there with all the other colored kids."

"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose."