“Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.” — Duke Ellington

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.