I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.