We're Blues People. And Blues Never Lets

We're Blues People. And Blues Never Lets Tragedy Have The Last Word.

We Created The Spirituals. We Created So Much Great Music, Jazz Chief Amongst Our Innovations, Teaching Us How To Prize Ourselves And How To Speak To One Another, That Our Kids Don't Know That Achievement, There's No Way In The World That Could Be Good For Us.

The Musicians I Respected Were Much Older Than Me. I Expected Them To Cut My Head, And They Did.

Having Heard Clifford Brown Play All Those Fast Runs, I Used To Really Practice Clarke Trumpet Exercises All Day Long So That I Could Play Fast. That's All I Wanted To Do. I Was Like A Child With A Toy.

If You Want To Be Different, Do Something Different.