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

"I'm not a lady. I'm a woman."

"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've been called a lot of names in my life, but I've never been called a liar."