When I Choose Material For An Album

You Can't Be Different If You Look At It. Being Gifted Is Different. I Had That In My Piano Playing. I'm Very Thankful For That. I'm Very Aware Of That. The Style And What I Fed Is Just Me. I Never Worked At It. It Just Happened.

It's Logical That People From Bad Times Will Reflect Their Feelings In Their Communication. Music Is Part Of The Communication. If You Lived It, You Can Do It.

This Is The World You Have Made Yourself, Now You Have To Live In It.

Jazz Is Not Just Music, It's A Way Of Life, It's A Way Of Being, A Way Of Thinking. . . . The New Inventive Phrases We Make Up To Describe Things - All That To Me Is Jazz Just As Much As The Music We Play.

To Most White People, Jazz Means Black And Jazz Means Dirt, And That's Not What I Play. I Play Black Classical Music.