Jazz Comes From Our Way Of Life,

The Blues. It Runs Through All American Music. Somebody Bending The Note. The Other Is The Two-beat Groove. It's In New Orleans Music, It's In Jazz, It's In Country Music, It's In Gospel.

One Thing About Excellence, It&mac226;s An Exclusive Club. And It&mac226;s Only For Those Who Really Want To Pay Dues To The S--. My Daddy Told Me When I Was A Boy: The Only Way You Can Be Different From Other People Is To Do Some S-- They Don't Want To Do.

Through Improvisation, Jazz Teaches You About Yourself. And Through Swing, It Teaches You That Other People Are Individuals Too. It Teaches You How To Coordinate With Them.

I Wanted To Make Somebody Feel Like Coltrane Made Me Feel, Listening To It.

Many Heroic Things Happened During Slavery. And Remember That There Was A National Movement Away From It Even At The Time. The Era Of Reconstruction And Then The Subsequent Dismantling Of Reconstruction Sent Us In A Tailspin. Then We Had The Civil Rights Movement. Now We Have Our First Non-white President. We Have A Pattern Of Moving Apart And Then Coming Back Together Throughout The History Of This Country. Each Time, We Come Closer.