I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again. Dr. John Read Quote
The locals are always going to want the traditions to stay alive. I just hope we can do something about them politicians. Dr. John Read Quote
It was the first time I was looking, really, right after the storm, that I saw maybe the amount of devastation that had happened in the Lower Ninth Ward. Where my friends lived, which was about six blocks from where the industrial canal was, houses was smashed into houses, and there were, like, four houses smashed together. Dr. John Read Quote
When I first started, I didn’t know what I was doing. I was such a – like a kid that got into things before I was ready. I was like the original learning-on-the-job-experience guy. All I knew was, if I hired the best musicians, I got the best arranger, and got the right songs for the right singer, I had did my job correctly. Dr. John Read Quote
Indigenous peoples was messed over. It was like a tradition here. We broke every treaty with them that ever was written. I think Andrew Jackson wanted to wipe them out. Dr. John Read Quote
Where Charlie Christian left off, Papoose started a new thing; he was an innovator of the guitar. The things he did during his recording career with Fats Domino in the Fifties and Sixties until the day he died was as much a part of the music of New Orleans as anybody else has had to offer. Dr. John Read Quote
There was a lot of freedom, so bands in those days did not have to play for the public. They played for club owners that enjoyed music. You know, what happened – there was a lot of clubs that had bebop music or different forms of music. It was great for musicians. Dr. John Read Quote
See, I don’t know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea. Dr. John Read Quote
My dad always pointed out Louis Armstrong’s pad when we passed by there. And me and my dad were both proud Louis Armstrong was from New Orleans. Dr. John Read Quote
