My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.

He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.

I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.

Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the whole show with 40 members.

For me, music and life are all about style.

When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.