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

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?"

Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.