The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.

Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.

Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.

The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and you can be more - we're dealing with a form of commercialism that obscures a prior relationship to quality, and it's a national problem.

No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.

Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.