Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
It's a good time for black people to be alive.