We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It’s just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

White frames Black popular music—especially the soul/R&B tradition he worked within—as a living, still-developing art rather than a finished canon. Calling it “music made by my brothers and sisters” emphasizes communal authorship and cultural lineage, not individual genius. The metaphor of the music as “still a baby” suggests youth, vulnerability, and enormous growth potential; it also gently rebukes audiences and industry figures who treat the form as already fully defined or commercially exhausted. His smile signals optimism: the future possibilities of the genre (new sounds, new voices, wider recognition) outweigh present limitations or misunderstandings.