Yes, The Audience Is So

I Can't See Any Separation Between My Music And My Life. I Play Pretty Much Race Music: Its About What Happened To My Father, To Me, And What Can Happen To My Kids.

Black Music Has Become A Commercial Commodity. Live Performances Are Not So Accessible As They Were Previously. It Use To Be Possible To Go To The Bar On The Corner And Hear Music. It Was Available For A Fifteen Cent Beer.

Music Is A Language, And It's Like A Dictionary That Has A Lot Of Words, But If You Limited Yourself To A Couple Of Definitions You Would Be Illiterate. If One Limits Oneself To A Peculiar Definition Like 'new Music,' 'avant-garde,' Or Something Like That, I Think It's Like Cutting Out Half The Dictionary.

So, Rap Has That Quality, For Youth Anyway; It's A Kind Of Blues Element. It's Physical, Almost Gymnastic. It Speaks To You Organically. Rap Grows Out Of What Young People Really Are Today, Not Only Black Youth, But White - Everybody.

And When I Met Cecil Taylor It Was A Complete Transformation Of Musical Identities. All The Tenets That I Had Grown Up With Were Thrown Out The Window.