Paul Smoker Quotes

"When I was in high school I made the discovery that if I was playing in a jazz club, and there were black people in the club, if I could get the black people to like what I was doing, I was on the right track. So I began to play to those people because they knew what the authentic music was. I've always had that in the back of my head." - Paul Smoker

source: Interview with Ron Netsky / Rochester City Newspaper (June 22, 2010)