We're Blues People. And Blues Never Lets

Let The Critics Criticize And Let The Doers Do.

Art Is A Luxury. It's Not Necessary For You To - You Can Work Your Job And You Can Make Some Money And Never Know Who Walt Whitman Was, And Never Read A Poem.

I Grew Up In The South, In New Orleans, Where Guys Torture You All The Time. So I Didn't Really Grow Up On The Self-esteem Campaign. When You Were Lousy At Something, They Told You You Were Lousy, And They Told You How To Fix It.

Commercialism That Has Absolutely No Relationship To Quality Whatsoever, Only Quantitative Assessment Of A Thing.

The Arts Speak Across Epochs. If You Think That People Started To Build A Cathedral In 1315 And The People Worked On That Cathedral, It Wasn't Going To Be Finished Until 1585. So They Were Thinking 200 Years From Now. Maybe By The Time I Die, This Wall Might Be Put Up.