Jazz Is A Good Barometer Of Freedom.

Hurry, Get On Board, It's Comin', Listen To Those Rails A-thrumming All Aboard. Get On The "a" Train, Soon You Will Be On Sugar Hill In Harlem.

There Is No Art When One Does Something Without Intention.

I Like Any And All Of My Associations With Music: Writing, Playing, And Listening. We Write And Play From Our Perspective, And The Audience Listens From Its Perspective. If And When We Agree, I Am Lucky.

How Can Anyone Expect To Be Understood Unless He Presents His Thoughts With Complete Honesty? This Situation Is Unfair Because It Asks Too Much Of The World. In Effect, We Say, ' I Don't Dare Show You What I Am Because I Don't Trust You For A Minute But Please Love Me Anyway Because I So Need You To. And, Of Course, If You Don't Love Me Anyway, You're A Dirty Dog, Just As I Suspected, So I Was Right In The First Place.' Yet, Every Time God's Children Have Thrown Away Fear In Pursuit Of Honesty-trying To Communicate Themselves, Understood Or Not, Miracles Have Happened.

I Merely Took The Energy It Takes To Pout And Wrote Some Blues.