I'm not a what-if and could-have person. I'm happy with my decisions.
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
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.
Success is not how much money you have in a bank. Success is how many lives you have touched.
A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.
If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.
I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with.