The Gary Dourdan Experience





In His Own Words (contd)


"...I look to the boundless energy of those people who brought me up. I want to continue to work in every aspect to elevate the craft to the highest level and leave a legacy for the younger cats that is not held by boundaries."

"My father played so many different musics around the house. On Sunday he played classical. On the weekends, he played jazz, and he played all the jazz. He'd play Lee Morgan. He'd play all the Miles stuff, and it was consistently being played all the time, and my uncles were playing saxophone. It's just they had it around all the time. It's not something-- they sat you down in front of something and made you learn your rudiments. We did that later. But it was something that was constantly around. So it was a lifestyle."

"That is one of the positive offshoots of our show for young folks - is that they can see that being in school and being intelligent is not a stupid thing, is not corny."

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