Sometimes It's Worse To Win A Fight

There's No Damn Business Like Show Business - You Have To Smile To Keep From Throwing Up.

So I Asked Him To Play "trav'lin' All Alone." That Came Closer Than Anything To The Way I Felt. And Some Part Of It Must Have Come Across. The Whole Joint Quieted Down. If Someone Had Dropped A Pin, It Would Have Sounded Like A Bomb. When I Finished, Everybody In The Joint Was Crying In Their Beer, And I Picked Thirty-eight Bucks Up Off The Floor. . . . When I Showed Mom The Money For The Rent And Told Her I Had A Regular Job Singing For Eighteen Dollars A Week, She Could Hardly Believe It.

Them That's Got Shall Get, Them That's Not Shall Lose. So The Bible Says, And It Still Is News. Mama May Have, Papa May Have, But God Bless The Child That's Got His Own.

New Orleans Is The Only City In The World You Go In To Buy A Pair Of Nylon Stockings They Want To Know Your Head Size.

I Try To Improvise Like Les Young, Louis Armstrong Or Someone Else I Admire. What Comes Out Is What I Feel.