The Wise Musicians Are Those Who Play

The Problem Of Expressing The Contributions That Benny Carter Has Made To Popular Music Is So Tremendous It Completely Fazes Me, So Extraordinary A Musician Is He.

Music, Of Course, Is What I Hear And Something That I More Or Less Live By. It's Not An Occupation Or Profession, It's A Compulsion.

It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing.

I Don't Need Time. What I Need Is A Deadline!

On Becoming More Acquainted With The Word Of The Bible, I Began To Understand So Much More Of What I Had Been Taught, And Of What I Had Learned About Life And About The People In Mine.