The Industry Now Wants To Be In

Most Black Singers Like To Slow The Word Down And, And Go Directly To Your Heart. They're Not Interested In Your Ears, We Just Want To Go Directly To Your Heart.

In New York, I Was Excited About The Music In New York Because The Only Music That I Was More Or Less Involved With In The South Was Either Country And Western Or Hillbilly Music As We Used To Call It When I Was A Kid And, Ah, Gospel. There Was No, There Was No In Between. And When I Got To New York All The Other Musics That's In The World Just Came Into My Head Whether It Was The Classics, Jazz, I Never Knew What Jazz Was About All, Had Heard Anything About Jazz.

I Never Even Visualized For A Second Doing What I'm Doing.

I Would Imagine After The First Recording Session With Jerry Leiber And Mike Stoller And Atlantic Records I Began To Realize That This Is Going To Be Like This For The Rest Of My Life And I Knew That What, What They Were Doing Was Going To Be Successful Because With Each Session That We Would Do, It Would Get Better And Better And Better, The Songs Would Become Better, The, Ah, The Feeling Of Success Was There And We Were All In The Middle Of That As Well.

Those Things Don't Happen Today. I Feel Sorry For The Kids In The Industry Today. They Have On Sunglasses, Eat Caviar In Jet Planes, But They'll Never Know The True Feeling That We Did.