Scott Saul > Quotes

“the less people knew, the louder they got.”
― Scott Saul, Becoming Richard Pryor

“Outside of Yale and its American Studies department, I owe a great debt to Sumanth Gopinath and Peter Curtis, who lent me their subtle understanding of music theory and their finely tuned ears and who encouraged my blustery incursions into the domain of musicology;”
― Scott Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties

“I was scared,” he observed. Unlike his soft-edged mother, Buck and Marie were extraordinarily gifted at instilling fear; their livelihoods depended upon it.”
― Scott Saul, Becoming Richard Pryor

“Scratch any musician," jazz scholar John Szwed has said, "and you find a crypto-Pythagorean.”
― Scott Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties

“reminded, by a deputy, that he had been booked with thousands of dollars on his person, more than enough to post bail. He bought his way out of jail time.”
― Scott Saul, Becoming Richard Pryor