The music scene is more competitive in the States.
If you can’t play the Blues you might as well hang it up.
Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.
Music is a reservoir… of sounds.
Jazz is a living music; since its beginning has expressed the feelings, dreams and hopes of the people.
What I’m doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word – I love it.
I hope we left you with something to put under your pillow.
If you can’t play the blues, you might as well hang it up.
Darlin… be-bop is the music of the future.
If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don’t know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it’s composition.
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it’s composition. If you don’t understand what it’s about, you’re depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.