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

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.

You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass and ignorant can be considered to be real and of the people. And when you begin to have the mass of populus striving for something that's not worth striving for, then tremendous amounts of energy go into...the maintenance of that which is worthless.

Who creates a thing is not as important as what the thing is. Who created baseball? Who created basketball? Who created the space program? Who created - we could go on and on. We could argue about who created something. We all are participants in it.

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

Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.

So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.