I Never Sing A Song The Same

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

I Never Sing A Song The Same Way Twice.

Love Is Like A Faucet, It Turns Off And On.

So I Asked Him To Play "trav'lin' All Alone." That Came Closer Than Anything To The Way I Felt. And Some Part Of It Must Have Come Across. The Whole Joint Quieted Down. If Someone Had Dropped A Pin, It Would Have Sounded Like A Bomb. When I Finished, Everybody In The Joint Was Crying In Their Beer, And I Picked Thirty-eight Bucks Up Off The Floor. . . . When I Showed Mom The Money For The Rent And Told Her I Had A Regular Job Singing For Eighteen Dollars A Week, She Could Hardly Believe 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.