“If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how ...” — Albert Murray Quote

“If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.”

“A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.”

“The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.”

“I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.”

“An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.”

“I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.”