I offer you what I have my Poverty
I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire decades were named for music. In the 1940s - after World War II - changes in taxation, ballrooms closing, people moving to the suburbs, and the onset of target marketing and the confusion of commerce with art caused some things to happen as a result that have taken us away from jazz and what jazz offers us.
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
I love Los Angeles. It has a lot to offer culturally and has amazing restaurants.
I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.
I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.
What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates. )
You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to the world.
Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt.
I can offer you only: this world like a knife