Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.