The Idea Of Life Is To Give

Mutual Respect Is So Important Because As Soon As It Disappears In Relations Between You And The Next Person, There's Trouble.

I Try To Play The Bare Essence, To Let Everything Be Just What It's Supposed To Be In That Particular Spot...you Have Many Things To Pick From When You're Playing, So You Try To Train Yourself To Pick Out The Best Things That You Know.

I'd Like To Play For You One Of My Compositions, My Only Composition.

I Used To Do A Lot Of Apologizing For What The State Department Had Done.

I Think The Idea Is Now For Blacks To Write About The History Of Our Music. It's Time For That, Because Whites Have Been Doing It All The Time. It's Time For Us To Do It Ourselves And Tell It Like It Is.