 The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do. |
| Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping. |
| The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear. |
| You've got to change with the public's taste. |
| I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. |
| I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes. |
| I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music. |
| I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South. |
| I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist. |
