Louis Armstrong Is Jazz. He Represents What

Don't Worry About What Others Say About Your Music. Pursue Whatever You Are Hearing... But If Everybody Really Hates Your Music Maybe You Could Try Some Different Approaches.

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.

When I Came To New York, To Brooklyn, I Met Alvin Ailey And Stanley Crouch And August Wilson. They Were Always Putting Things In A Philosophical Context. All The Great Jazz Musicians Did, Too. There Was Always A Sub-context To What They Were Saying About Music Even Though They Would Be Very Down Home And Earthy. So I Started To Develop, In Addition To My Power And Ability To Simply Hear, A Way To Place Myself In A Time.

The First Jazz Musician Was A Trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, And The Last Will Be A Trumpeter, The Archangel Gabriel.

Many Of Our Greatest Musicians Abandoned All Of Their Aesthetic Objectives To Try To Become Pertinent. And, At The End Of The Day, They Never Became Pop Stars. I Counter Stated That Very Strongly, And I Continue To Do That.