Don't Settle For Style. Succeed In Substance.

I Remember When I Wrote A Piece, "blood On The Fields," It Was A While Ago, It Was About Slavery And About Two Characters, And I Studied So Much Of Music, I Would Always Go Back To The Original Documents, And As Much As I Can Get Original Chants And Slave Chants And Different Type Of Beats And Rhythms And Ring Shout.

We No Longer Want To Be A Melting Pot, Because We Don't Understand What Is Already Melted.

Jazz Music Creates So Many Phenomenal Figures.

There's Always The Cliche Of The Choir Shouting And Clapping. Ok, You Have To Do That, But There's Also Introspective Parts, Parts Where You Just Follow Someone That's Preaching. There's Lots Of Different Emotions And Moods That A Service Requires.

The Soul Gives Us Resilience - An Essential Quality Since We Constantly Have To Rebound From Hardship.