If You Want To Be A Musician,

I'm Not Much On Gimmicks. I Never Have Been Because They Don't Last.

Bud Johnson, God Rest His Soul Of Fame, A Tenor Saxophonist. Bud Was Always A Big, Big, Big Booster Of Mine And He Always When I First Met Bud In Pittsburgh When He Came Through There, He Heard Me Sing And He Wanted Me To Come To Chicago.

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.

... Geniuses Have A Little Extra Something. There's That Little Something That You Know Is A Little Different.

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.