My Ego Is Controlled Enough That I

When You Get Cancer, It's Like Really Time To Look At What Your Life Was And Is, And I Decided That Everything I've Done So Far Is Not As Important As What I'm Going To Do Now.

If You're In Jazz And More Than Ten People Like You, You're Labeled Commercial.

You Don't Have To Live The Blues To Play The Blues.

Let's Say You Have Some Chicken Stock And You're Making Soup, And Out Of Everything You Can Taste, Some Of The Things You Put In And Some Of The Things You Don't. So You Start Out With An African Spice Then You Hear Some Brazilian Music, So Then It Changes. Then You Hear Jamaican And It Changes Again. And The Result Depends On How Much Of Each Spice You Put Into It. Now, I've Been Putting In Spices Since I Started Playing Professionally In 1945.

Think About It: Look At The Strides Of Awareness And Treatment And Tests That Women Have Had With Breast Cancer, That The Gay Community Has Had With Aids, Because They're Active And They Talk About It.