If You Want To Be Different, Do

Jazz Music Celebrates Life! Human Life; The Range Of It, The Absurdity Of It, The Ignorance Of It, The Greatness Of It, The Intelligence Of It, The Sexuality Of It, The Profundity Of It. And It Deals With It. In All Of Its... It Deals With It!

I Feel Like A Lot Of The Fundamental Material, I've Assimilated. So Now The Question Is: Am I Going To Really Get Into My Spiritual Inheritance Of Music And Really Develop My Abilities?

Our Culture Is What We Did Together. What Did Walt Whitman Represent For All Of Us? What Was His Message To Us? That Is An Inheritance, And When We Squander That Inheritance We Act Outside. We Don't Know Who We Are; We Don't Know Where We Are.

There Was One Thing Beethoven Didn't Do. When One Of His String Quartets Was Played, You Can Believe The Second Violin Wasn't Improvising.

We Fight For Territory. We See It In Our Congress, We See It In Our Political Systems, We See It In Our Ways Of Life, How Separated We Are. When We Moved Out Of The Cities And We Lost All Of The Memory That Was In Cities, And We - One Of The Highest Achievements In Our Culture Is To Be Able To Segregate Yourself From Everyone Else, And The Deep Thing Is The Deepest Punishment Is Solitary Confinement.