Let The Critics Criticize And Let The

The Blues. It Runs Through All American Music. Somebody Bending The Note. The Other Is The Two-beat Groove. It's In New Orleans Music, It's In Jazz, It's In Country Music, It's In Gospel.

When I Did The Abyssinian Mass, I Went Through The Whole History Of The Church Music And The Gospel Music, Even With The Anglo American Hymns, The Afro American Hymns, The Spirituals And How It Developed, Up To Thomas Dorsey And The Dixie Hummingbirds, Going Through The History Of The Music, Jazz Musicians.

Don't Wish For Someone Else To Do Later What You Can Do Now.

The Fact That We Are Culturally Ignorant And We Don't Know What Our Heritage Is, The Price That We Pay Is That We Act Outside Of Ourselves Almost All The Time. We Make Very Bad Decisions How We Deal With Other People And Their Culture.

I Dress Up A Certain Way Because I Respect The Music.