I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.