God Has Blessed You When He Lets

All Dope Can Do For You Is Kill You... The Long Hard Way. And It Can Kill The People You Love Right Along With You.

I Think I Copied My Style From Louis Armstrong. Because I Used To Like The Big Volume And The Big Sound That Bessie Smith Got When She Sang ... So I Liked The Feeling That Louis Got And I Wanted The Big Volume That Bessie Smith Got. But I Found That It Didn't Work With Me, Because I Didn't Have A Big Voice. So Anyway Between The Two Of Them I Sorta Got Billie Holiday.

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

God Bless The Child That's Got His Own.

The Only Reason They're Out There Is To See Me Fall Into The Damn Orchestra Pit.