Notes and Tones Quotes

“If some professor asks me what jazz is, it's a music and it's a word that I heard describing the music and it's beautiful music regardless of what you think about it. It's just a word, just like your name.
Somebody says Arthur Taylor, then looks at you as a black person: It's the same thing. It's a white name, it's a slave name.”
― Arthur Taylor, Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews