There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

I want to shake people up so bad, that when they leave a nightclub where I've performed, I just want them to be to pieces.

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.