Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.