All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days
I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.
And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.
I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.
I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.