IKE-ISMS: The Sho-nuff Quotable Wisdom
of Ike Carter

Ike Carter is as celebrated for the humorous wit and energetic spirit brought to his on-air presentations as he is for his vast knowledge of African American music traditions. Quotes featured on this page might echo some of the same sentiments and observations communicated to listeners over the years but are in fact extracts from the Passion Supreme video book interviews. They sometimes offer as much insight into evolving developments in the present as they do people and events from the past. 

"Everything I say and everything I do in regard to music is based on my experience of it.” 
Ike Carter

“We can’t coexist without mutual respect... That doesn’t mean we have to accept another person’s culture as our own, but we do need to respect the value it holds for that person.”
Ike Carter

“Jazz music is a genius music.”
Ike Carter

“Life and music are filled with paradoxes that seem at first to contradict each other, but which in the end can make a lot of sense.”
​Ike Carter