I Grew Up Certain For A While

I Began To Feel That The Drama Of The Truth That Is In The Moment And In The Past Is Richer And More Interesting Than The Drama Of Hollywood Movies. So I Began Looking At Documentary Films.

By Its Very Nature, No One Person Can Ever Be The Center Of Jazz.

The Reason Why You Do History, And Particularly Why You Do War, Is That You Want To Make Sure That In The Next War, Some Lessons Were Learned. There's A Saying: "history Doesn't Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme." Or Ecclesiastes: "what Has Been Will Be Again. What Has Been Done Will Be Done Again." Human Nature Always Superimposes Itself - Its Strength And Its Frailty Over The Rush Of Chaos Of Ongoing Events - And We Can Perceive Patterns And Themes And Motifs.

I Think We Continually Need To Understand How Important An Event The War Was - How Defining, How Central To Who We Are. Everything That Came Before It Led Up To It, And Everything Of Importance To This Country - At Least Up To 1940 - Was A Consequence Of It. Even Now There's An Echo Of The War, However Faint, In Almost Everyone's Life.

The Stories From 1975 On Are Not Finished And There Is No Resolve. I Could Spend 50 Hours On The Last 25 Years Of Jazz And Still Not Do It Justice.