Don't Wish For Someone Else To Do

Walt Whitman's "leaves Of Grass" Is Still In Print. They're Debating Right Now Over Mark Twain. He's Still Available. Winslow Homer Can Still Be Seen. Our Arts Are - They're There. We Got To Go Get Them And Understand That This Is An Important Legacy For Our Country.

It Was Dr. King's Tireless Activism That Fostered Our Modern Way Of Relating To One Another.

I Didn't Want To Get That Ring Around My Lips From Practicing The Trumpet, Because I Thought The Girls Wouldn't Like Me. So I Never Practiced.

Blues Is Like The Roux In A Gumbo. People Ask Me If Jazz Always Has The Blues In It. I Say, If It Sounds Good It Does.

I Hope It Might Help Players Have Confidence In Our Own Ways, And Not To Be Afraid Of Them, As Bernstein Showed - Things Like Hoe-downs, Fiddle Songs, And The Art Of Improvisation, And The New Orleans Funeral Tradition, And Call-and-response Church Singing, And The Fact That The Blues Run Through Everything. And In Our Relationship To European Music, In That We Don't Have To Imitate It, It's A Part Of Us, Inseparable.