Jerry Leiber Quotes
- I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better musicians,…
- Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is…
- Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.
- I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke…
- The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that…
- Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on.