If You Decide You Want To Be

I'm Interested In Music, Not In My Image. If Someone Plays Something Fantastic, That I Could Never Have Thought Of, It Makes Me Happy To Know It Exists.

After I Found Out That I Was Playing Music And That I'd Have To Learn How To Read And Write Music, I Started Doing That About Two Years Later. Finally, I Said, "oh, That Means What I Really Want To Do Is To Be A Composer." But When I Was Coming Up In Texas, There Was Segregation. There Was No Schools To Go To. I Taught Myself How To Read And How To Start Writing.

After I Left Texas And Went To California, I Had A Hard Time Getting Anyone To Play Anything That I Was Writing, So I Had To End Up Playing Them Myself. And That's How I Ended Up Just Being A Saxophone Player.

Even When You Write It, Someone's Got To Play It. So If You Can Play It And Bypass All The Rest Of The Things, You're Still Doing As Great As Someone That Has Spent Forty Years Trying To Find Out How To Do That. I'm Really Pro-human Beings, Pro-expression Of Everything.

Music Has Many Uses And I Think The Most Perfected Use That Music Has Is One Of A Healing Quality.