Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
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Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
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I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
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I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
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If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
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If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.
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In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
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Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
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No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
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Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
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Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
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You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
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You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
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