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I Love Gustavo Dudamel And I Love What He Does For Classical Music, And I Love What He Comes Out Of, El Sistema And The Old Man Abreu. When We Were In Venezuela, I Had The Chance To Go To His Building. He Had, Like, Five Or Six Orchestras Playing Of Kids From The Hood Playing, Like, Mahler's Third Symphony And Shostakovich Fifth And Beethoven. Man, It's Unbelievable. I Mean, They Could Play.

We Always Hear About The Rights Of Democracy, But The Major Responsibility Of It Is Participation.

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.

The Arts Speak Across Epochs. If You Think That People Started To Build A Cathedral In 1315 And The People Worked On That Cathedral, It Wasn't Going To Be Finished Until 1585. So They Were Thinking 200 Years From Now. Maybe By The Time I Die, This Wall Might Be Put Up.

I Always Read All These Books About The Slaves. My Mother Is Very Educated. My Father Would Talk To Us Like We Were Grown Men. We Never Knew What He Was Talking About Half The Time.