It's Our Job To Just Do As

Don't Settle For Style. Succeed In Substance.

Blues Is Like The Roux In A Gumbo. People Ask Me If Jazz Always Has The Blues In It. I Say, If It Sounds Good It Does.

Thank The Good Lord For A Job.

The Blues Is Always There. It's Going To Be Hard Out Here, But It's All Right. It's All Right, And That's What The Blues Teaches You. You Got To Roll With The Punches And Find Your Equilibrium.

When I Came To New York, To Brooklyn, I Met Alvin Ailey And Stanley Crouch And August Wilson. They Were Always Putting Things In A Philosophical Context. All The Great Jazz Musicians Did, Too. There Was Always A Sub-context To What They Were Saying About Music Even Though They Would Be Very Down Home And Earthy. So I Started To Develop, In Addition To My Power And Ability To Simply Hear, A Way To Place Myself In A Time.