I Never Had A Chance To Play

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 Joined Count Basie's Band To Make A Little Money And To See The World. For Two Years I Didn't See Anything But The Inside Of A Blue Goose Bus, And I Never Got To Send Home A Quarter.

I Hate Straight Singing. I Have To Change A Tune To My Own Way Of Doing It. That's All I Know.

When Lester Plays, He Almost Seems To Be Singing; One Can Almost Hear The Words.

In This Country Kings Or Dukes Don't Amount To Nothing. The Greatest Man Around Then Was Franklin D. Roosevelt, And He Was The President; So I Started Calling Lester The President. It Got Shortened To Pres.