I am not an African. I am an American..

This is a tradition of resistance to the term that's as old as the term itself, especially because that term has been used to commodify and reduce bl….

Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me..

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues..

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump..

For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health..

I lived and languished..

I am occasionally loveable but for the most part I’m like loving a raincloud..

You have to look good..

Because love, love never finishes..

It is really a tightrope sort of thing, living..

After two takes you're imitating yourself..

I don't see the point in working just to be working..

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do..

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live..

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more..

Love which economizes is never true love..

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it..

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz..

Nobody understands your life, but you..

It is poetry that changes everything..