"I ain't got no education, but I got sense."

"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."

"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 somethin…"

"I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow. I just live for today."

"I don't dig that 'happy' jazz. I like to hear a guy play his horn, and I want to hear what he's thinking."