The Only Thing My Mother

I Don't Really Live Like A Musician Myself. I Think Music Is Just Something That I Do, But I'd Like To Be Doing Lots Of Other Things. I Like To Cure All Kinds Of Illness.

I've Never Had A Relationship With A Record Executive. I Always Went To The Record Company By Someone That Liked My Playing. Then They Would Get Fired, And I'd Be Left With The Record Company. And Then - Because They Got Fired - The Record Company Wouldn't Do Anything For Me.

After I Left Texas And Went To California, I Had A Hard Time Getting Anyone To Play Anything That I Was Writing, So I Had To End Up Playing Them Myself. And That's How I Ended Up Just Being A Saxophone Player.

After I Found Out That I Was Playing Music And That I'd Have To Learn How To Read And Write Music, I Started Doing That About Two Years Later. Finally, I Said, "oh, That Means What I Really Want To Do Is To Be A Composer." But When I Was Coming Up In Texas, There Was Segregation. There Was No Schools To Go To. I Taught Myself How To Read And How To Start Writing.

I Had A Really Good Time In New Orleans, Although I Had Some Very Tragic Times In Baton Rouge. Some Guys Beat Me Up And Threw My Horn Away. 'cause I Had A Beard, Then, And Long Hair Like The Beatles.