I don't think there is much American music.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.