Don't Wish For Someone Else To Do

I Travel Up And Down The Country And I've Been All Around The Middle Of America For Many Years. Middle America Is Not One Big Mass Of People With A Proverbial Beer In Its Hand, Keeping The Country Down. That Is Not My Experience Of It And I Don't Labor Under That Misconception. And We Have A Long Tradition Of Coming Together Through Music In Our Country.

Everything Comes Out In Blues Music: Joy , Pain , Struggle . Blues Is Affirmation With Absolute Elegance.

Art Is A Luxury. It's Not Necessary For You To - You Can Work Your Job And You Can Make Some Money And Never Know Who Walt Whitman Was, And Never Read A Poem.

The Only Justification For Looking Down On Anyone Is That You're Going To Stop And Pick Them Up.

People Have Taken Time Out Of Their Day And Spent Their Money To Come Sit Down At A Concert. And It's Jazz Music-it's Not Easy For Them To Get To It. I Don't Want Them Ever To Feel That I'm Taking Their Presence Lightly.