I Dress Up A Certain Way Because

My Thing Is, Once You Start To Put A Backbeat On Your Music Or Something That Has A Machine In It, You Have Popularity, But You Lose The Flexibility. And You Lose A Richness.

The Fact That We Are Culturally Ignorant And We Don't Know What Our Heritage Is, The Price That We Pay Is That We Act Outside Of Ourselves Almost All The Time. We Make Very Bad Decisions How We Deal With Other People And Their Culture.

I Always Read All These Books About The Slaves. My Mother Is Very Educated. My Father Would Talk To Us Like We Were Grown Men. We Never Knew What He Was Talking About Half The Time.

If You Want To Be Different, Do Something Different.

Through Improvisation, Jazz Teaches You About Yourself. And Through Swing, It Teaches You That Other People Are Individuals Too. It Teaches You How To Coordinate With Them.