Don't Wish For Someone Else To Do

When I First Came To New York Everybody On The Scene Would Treat Me Like I Could Play But I Couldn't.

You Don't Try To Duplicate Certain Things That Other Cats Do, Because You Could Never Do It As Well As They Do. Nobody Can Get On That Tenor Saxophone And Play Like Trane, Because He's The Only One Who Can Spell Out Chords And Sound Good When He Does It.

We Fight For Territory. We See It In Our Congress, We See It In Our Political Systems, We See It In Our Ways Of Life, How Separated We Are. When We Moved Out Of The Cities And We Lost All Of The Memory That Was In Cities, And We - One Of The Highest Achievements In Our Culture Is To Be Able To Segregate Yourself From Everyone Else, And The Deep Thing Is The Deepest Punishment Is Solitary Confinement.

When I Was 12, I Began Listening To John Coltrane And I Developed A Love For Jazz, Which I Still Have More And More Each Year.

It's Our Job To Just Do As Much As We Can To Enlighten The People About It And To Represent It By Playing It With Some Integrity. That's What I Try To Do.