You Don't Need The Fame To Be

It's Part Of Life To Have Obstacles. It's About Overcoming Obstacles; That's The Key To Happiness.

I Don't Go Around, The Way Many Musicians Do, With Earbuds In My Ear Listening To My Ipod All Day And Just Sticking My Head In The Music All The Time.

The Spirit Of Jazz Is The Spirit Of Openness.

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.

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.