If You Want To Be A Musician,

When You're Playing Music, Say For Instance, You're Playing A Part Of The Band And You're Looking At Your Music, Your Horn Is Down Into The Stand. This Way, It's

I Think A Song That's Got Something To Say. I'm Not Much On Gimmicks. I Never Have Been Because They Don't Last. But I Like A Song That Tells A Story And Has Some Meat To It, You Know, That Means Something.

I Was So Enamored With The Idea Of Being In Show Business So Everything Was Bright To Me. I Mean, I Didn't Think Of It As Being Tough And Things Like That.

My View Is That You Cannot Close Your Mind And Say I Don't Want To Listen To This Or That. Because If You Can't Appreciate The Bad For Being Bad, You Can't Appreciate The Good. If You Turn A Deaf Ear To Everything But One Style, Pretty Soon It's Not Going To Work Out.

I Knew Exactly What I Was, And There Was No Hang-up With Me. None Whatsoever. The Fact That The Pigment Of My Skin Maybe Being Lighter Brown Than Other People Of My Race, Maybe Some Of Them, But You Know Our Race Has All Colors.