Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
“I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.”
“When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.”