Source : "Donald Byrd dies at 80; jazz musician and educator". www.latimes.com. February 11, 2013.
Donald Byrd“I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.”
Source : Witold Gombrowicz, Dominique de Roux (1973). “A kind of testament”, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
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