Don't Bullshit' Just Play.

When I Say "our," I Definitely Mean All Of America. It's Not Less Pertinent For You Because It Comes From A Black Person, Just Like A Great Achievement By An Anglo American Is Less Important.

Our Culture Is What We Did Together. What Did Walt Whitman Represent For All Of Us? What Was His Message To Us? That Is An Inheritance, And When We Squander That Inheritance We Act Outside. We Don't Know Who We Are; We Don't Know Where We Are.

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.

To Say That The Afro American Created Jazz Doesn't Mean Anything Bad About Anglo Americans, And I Always Teach My Younger Jazz Musicians That At This Point The Entirety Of The American Tradition Is Your Heritage, And You Need To Know It.

Even If Nobody's Singing, Just When You Talk, You're Singing. I'll Meet Somebody And Say, "oh, I'm Tone-deaf." I Say, "you're Not Tone-deaf, Because If You Were Tone-deaf You Would Speak Like That. But You're 'oh, I'm Tone-deaf.' You Already Sang A Song To Me."