"[I graduated high school] in 1968.... I played on John Cheney's first basketball team. Now he's in the hall of fame for Temple University, and I went to Temple University--like every black kid in the neighborhood we wanted to follow Bill Cosby, that was our hero.... We wanted to do everything he did. The one thing I probably shouldn't have done was drop out of school, but I said, hey, if Cosby did it everybody can do it... so I blame Bill Cosby."
"I taught mathematics, and I used to fool my class when they got me a little upset and I'd give them trick math questions like the square root of 49. Most people say seven--that's incorrect and that's incomplete. The correct answer is plus-or-minus seven--seven is the absolute value."
"Los discos viejos en espa¤ol, old records.... A duplicate is a reasonable facsimile--I like to use the analogy it's like the best of counterfeit money, but it's still counterfeit money.... The U.S. was so into marketing that most people forgot that the collectible itself had actual value--in other words, they were so interested in getting a great copy, a great sound on the CD that they forgot the actual cover work, the artwork and just the fact that it's a collectible."
"I'm presently working on a book all about records and I'm using a lot of the physical Philadelphia base... I'm a pianist.... I'm working on a black version of Rocky...."
"You got Warmdaddy's on Penn's Landing, you've got Ortliebs Jazzhaus, and those two I really recommend because of versatility... reggae one night, blues one night, jazz one night, soul."
"If I was stuck on a desert island and I had a choice of one album, it would be What's Going On by Marvin Gaye.... An album is a concept, it's not just a compilation of sounds--that's why I thoroughly, thoroughly recommend never to buy greatest hits. Greatest hits are good for in the car on a cassette, but an album such as What's Going On, the whole album is about what's going on"
