The Allusion Was That I Was Actually

The Pressure Of Show Business Is On All The Time And Show Business Is A Fickle Business. Whatever Is Popular Now - That's All That Counts. I Have To Constantly Re-identify Myself To Myself, Reactivate My Own Standards, My Own Convictions About What I'm Doing And Why.

It Doesn't Matter To Me What Is Going On Today Because My Music Encompasses Every Kind Of Mood That Exists In Human Beings. That's My Stick.

I Was Reared In The Church From The Age Of Three. I've Played Piano Since I Was Three. I Performed At Revivals And For My People Around North Carolina For Several Years. People Around Town Collected Money To Send Me To School.

Jazz Is Not Just Music, It's A Way Of Life, It's A Way Of Being, A Way Of Thinking.

Slavery Has Never Been Abolished From America's Way Of Thinking.