Daryl Davis

You know, when I first started this, it was like maybe 75% music, 25% other, you know, this work.

But now it's probably the exact opposite now.

I just take the gigs that I want to do.

If it's something that I feel like playing, I'll take it.

I've turned down more gigs in the last few years than I have accepted.

Well, you know, I wish people would carry the baton and improve upon what I've done.

I'm just one person, and there's always room for improvement.

Somebody can take my template and make amends to it or whatever.

I would hope people would be inspired to do that, and there have been some.

Well, I'll put it this way.

Music is my profession, for sure.

But improving race relations is my obsession.

And I would much rather, much rather be on stage playing my piano with my band, seeing people smiling and dancing and clapping their hands, than going to a Klan rally and watching people in robes and hoods march around a burning cross yelling, white power.

And I'll...

You laugh, but that's what I do.

I know.

Well, I mean, there are people who don't want me there, and they resent it, and they get into it with their leaders, and their leaders end up banishing them and stuff.

Right.

Jeff can tell you, because he's been to a lot of Klan things as well as his own organization, it's run kind of like a paramilitary.

So you have two kinds of rallies.