Against her natural inclination, ... Joyce held his large hands in hers like a caring mother. 'I'll kiss it and make it better,' she said in a soothing voice, kissing both hands. Then, more firmly: 'I think you can go to Europe now, Thelonious.' He got up and went to the airport. |
It's more than the people here. It shows that New Orleans can still do this. |
Live together, but don't get married. |
Our friends believed in us and in what I was doing. Perhaps they looked at us as some sort of an ideal that could possibly help to make this world a better place. . . . Marrying Joyce was the best thing I ever did in my life, |
SHE PRACTICALLY ran the details of the folk festival ... She was with me in every single way. |
She was my girl since 1950, ... She was involved with everything. |
The name of the game is to survive. If you can't survive, what is the point? You just go home and play your records. I don't think I'm ready to go home and play my records. |
The next few months will be critical in determining whether we can put it on. It will depend on how operable New Orleans is, and how much the city's image changes. |