Quotes

Now, one day the entire world will be the house of everyday. That's not yet, but it's what people in the arts strive for.

Jazz is a music of conservation, and that's what you need in a democracy.

"It's warm, it's intellectual, it's spiritual, it's tawdry, it's worldly, it's provincial. Anything you want, he has it in his sound. (Commenting on the influence Louie Armstrong has on Jazz).

In jazz you have the opportunity to establish your equality - based on your ability.

I know what it's really like to be called a nigger for real, by black and white people. I'm not interested in presenting that to the world as my expression. And I have to make the point to the younger people in rap, we was black in the 60s, man. We were black in 1974. We wasn't waiting for y'all to tell us what it was to be black. You're a guy from the Something Housing Project with limited education and now you're going to tell me what it means to be a black person in America? Man, you must really think you're in a video.

I was happy to see signs of the Confederacy come down. They lost. They shouldn't have statues.