When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
If you're trying to be hip, be hip.
We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.
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.