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To Most White People, Jazz Means Black And Jazz Means Dirt, And That's Not What I Play. I Play Black Classical Music.

It Doesn't Matter To Me What Is Going On Today Because My Music Encompasses Every Kind Of Mood That Exists In Human Beings. That's My Stick.

There Are All Kinds Of Things That Can Be Done. You Can Change Rhythms, You Can Change Chords, You Can Change Whole Concepts. But It Will Only Work, On A Record Or In A Performance, If You Can Make The People Buy It.

Anything Human Can Be Felt Through Music, Which Means That There Is No Limit To The Creating That Can Be Done With Music. You Can Take The Same Phrase From Any Song And Cut It Up So Many Different Ways - It's Infinite. It's Like God... You Know?

The Pressure Of Show Business Is On All The Time And Show Business Is A Fickle Business. Whatever Is Popular Now - That's All That Counts. I Have To Constantly Re-identify Myself To Myself, Reactivate My Own Standards, My Own Convictions About What I'm Doing And Why.