One Day A Whole Damn Song Fell

When Lester Plays, He Almost Seems To Be Singing; One Can Almost Hear The Words.

Mom And Pop Were Just A Couple Of Kids When They Got Married. He Was Eighteen, She Was Sixteen And I Was Three.

When You Sing, Always Tell The Truth.

I Think I Copied My Style From Louis Armstrong. Because I Used To Like The Big Volume And The Big Sound That Bessie Smith Got When She Sang ... So I Liked The Feeling That Louis Got And I Wanted The Big Volume That Bessie Smith Got. But I Found That It Didn't Work With Me, Because I Didn't Have A Big Voice. So Anyway Between The Two Of Them I Sorta Got Billie Holiday.

I Joined Count Basie's Band To Make A Little Money And To See The World. For Two Years I Didn't See Anything But The Inside Of A Blue Goose Bus, And I Never Got To Send Home A Quarter.