if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy. . . it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.
Nothing's gonna stop me from floating
To reap a perpetual harvest you need to sow a perpetual seed. I got a need for seed.
As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair.