I'd Like To Play For

I Used To Do A Lot Of Apologizing For What The State Department Had Done.

I Think The Idea Is Now For Blacks To Write About The History Of Our Music. It's Time For That, Because Whites Have Been Doing It All The Time. It's Time For Us To Do It Ourselves And Tell It Like It Is.

We Loved One Another, Man. I Mean All Those Stories About The Rift ... There Was No Question Of A Rift Between Charlie Parker And Me.

I Was Blessed That I Got Married Early And Had A Good Wife. That Sort Of Kept Me Straight. Probably I Would Have Been Like Charlie Parker, You Know, Involved In Drugs Or Alcohol Or Something Like That If I Hadn't Had This Stability.

Some Days You Get Up And Put The Horn To Your Chops And It Sounds Pretty Good And You Win. Some Days You Try And Nothing Works And The Horn Wins. This Goes On And On And Then You Die And The Horn Wins.