Marcus Belgrave Quotations

It's devastating. That's the birthplace of the music of this country. That includes all the genres of black music in this country. And it's the only place in the country that preserved it the way it should be preserved.

It was like Frank Sinatra. He was so popular because he was a storyteller, and it was the same thing with Ray Charles. It didn't make a difference if he was playing jazz, soul, R&B, pop or country. And it was always about the blues and the feelings he portrayed. The blues is awfully powerful.

You could hear any sort of music all day long in New Orleans. But we won't really know for a while, the full effect. It really is a shame, and hopefully they will recover.

The first time I sat in, I got through the whole tune before Ray got out of the fourth bar.