Love Is Like A Faucet, It Turns

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 Never Had A Chance To Play With Dolls Like Other Kids. I Started Working When I Was Six Years Old.

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.

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.

I Don't Think I Ever Sing The Same Way Twice. The Blues Is Sort Of A Mixed-up Thing. You Just Have To Feel It. Anything I Do Sing Is Part Of My Life.