My Earliest Memories Are Being Pinned To

Music In Movies Is All About Dissonance And Consonance, Tension And Release.

A Song Should Have All The Color And Beauty Of Every Rose.

We Were In The Heart Of The Ghetto In Chicago During The Depression, And Every Block - It Was Probably The Biggest Black Ghetto In America - Every Block Also Is The Spawning Ground Practically For Every Gangster, Black And White, In America Too.

I Look Back And Say, "this Must Have Been Somebody Else." I Am Not Going To Tell You That When I Was 4, I Dreamed About All Of This.

Benny [carter] Opened The Eyes Of A Lot Of Producers And Studios, So That They Could Understand That You Could Go To Blacks For Other Things Outside Of Blues And Barbecue. He's A Total Musician. He Was The Pioneer, He Was The Foundation. He Made It Possible For That Doubt To Be Taken Away.