Jazz Is Democracy In Music.

Don't Wish For Someone Else To Do Later What You Can Do Now.

Trumpet Players See Each Other, And It's Like We're Getting Ready To Square Off Or Get Into A Fight Or Something.

I Always Read All These Books About The Slaves. My Mother Is Very Educated. My Father Would Talk To Us Like We Were Grown Men. We Never Knew What He Was Talking About Half The Time.

The Musicians, Duke Ellington, His Thing Was Not About Separating Himself From The Rest Of America. Louis Armstrong - Go To The Forefathers Of Our Music - Jelly Roll Morton - They're Not Preaching A Separatist Agenda. They're Not Taking Their Music And Saying, "this Is For Me."

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