Trumpeter

🇺🇸W. C. Handy

Music

1873–1958

"I think America concedes that has sprung from the negro. When we take these things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down."

🇺🇸Miles Davis

Music

1926–1991

"I can't tell... All those white tenor players sound alike to me."

🇺🇸Louis Armstrong

Music

1901–1971

"The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell."

🇺🇸Dave Bartholomew

Music

1918–2019

"Dave Bartholomew Interview NAMM Oral History Library"

🇮🇹Andrea Bocelli

Music

b. 1958

"I have always found poetry and beauty in the church attributing central stage to a female presence who works on our behalf. I am a devotee of the Virgin to whom I always dedicate part of my prayers."

🇬🇧Roger Waters

Music

b. 1943

"In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all."

🇺🇸Ornette Coleman

Music

1930–2015

"When asked to play a 12-bar blues, Ornette Coleman fingered his plastic saxophone and played nothing...he's felt more nothing than you or I know."

🇺🇸Flea (musician)

Entertainment

b. 1962

"The music industry, I've never been concerned with. I've been very fortunate that it has taken care of me. Like a baby being breast fed."

"No steak "every now and then," no ribs, no burgers, none of that. … Culturally there needs to be a change, and why not start with myself?"