“They [black and white musicians] jived between each other. All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.”
“Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?" After they laughed at me a few times they began requesting the hillbilly stuff and enjoyed dancing to it.”
“We are going to be obviously looking at all legislation to see how it impacts ... job creation and job retention. If we feel it's going to hurt those prospects, we'll be fighting to kill that legislation.”
