I Got My First Trumpet When I

If You Didn't Have The Amalgam Of Blacks And African-type Sensibility And European Sensibility, You Wouldn't Have Jazz. Even In The Negative And In The Positive Ways - If There Was No Slavery And The Abolition Of Slavery, There Would Be No Jazz.

We're Blues People. And Blues Never Lets Tragedy Have The Last Word.

The Young Very Seldom Lead Anything In Our Country Today. It's Been Quite Some Time Since A Younger Generation Pushed An Older One To A Higher Standard.

For Black People, We're One Of The Only Groups Of People That For Some Reason To Express Love Of Yourself, In Some Ways, Is Misconstrued As A Dislike For Someone Else.

If You Want To Be Different, Do Something Different.