We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy. . . it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
Sweet head, give you sweet head.
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
When you're running for president, I think you have an obligation to be healthy. I just don't think you can do the work if you're not healthy.