The Value Of Music Is Not Dazzling

I Don't Think There Are Any Pure Africans Of The African Americans, But The African Part Of Our History Was Pretty Much Taken Away From Us During Slavery, So The 60s Gave Us A Chance, Because Of The Civil Rights Movement, To Kind Of Re-examine And Make Some Sort Of Formal Connection To Our African-ness.

I've Always Been Interested In Science. I Used To Take Watches Apart And Clocks Apart, And There's Little Screws, And A Little This And That, And I Found Out If I Dropped One Of Them, That Thing Ain't Gonna Work.

Being A Musician Is What I Do, But It's Not What I Am.

Nobody Told Me I Was A Child Prodigy.

In World War Ii, Jazz Absolutely Was The Music Of Freedom, And Then In The Cold War, Behind The Iron Curtain, Same Thing. It Was All Underground, But They Needed The Food Of Freedom That Jazz Offered.