I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

One thing about excellence, it&Mac226;s an exclusive club. And it&Mac226;s only for those who really want to pay dues to the s--. My daddy told me when I was a boy: The only way you can be different from other people is to do some s-- they don't want to do.

Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

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