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It's Harder To Build Than Destroy. To Build Is To Engage And Change. In Jazz, We Call Progressing Harmonies Changes. Changes Are Like Obstacles On A Speed Course. They Demand Your Attention And Require You To Be Present. They Are Coming...they Are Here..... And Then They Are Gone. It's How Life Comes. Each Moment Is A Procession From The Future Into The Past And The Sweet Spot Is Always The Present. Live In That Sweet Spot. Be Present.

Certain Music, Jazz In Particular, Has The Ability To Make You A Better Citizen Of The World. It Helps You Expand Your World View And Gives You More Confidence In Your Cultural Achievements. Improvisational Jazz Teaches You About Yourself While The Swing In Jazz Teaches You How To Work With Others

He [benny Carter] Is All That Every Jazz Musician The World Over Wants To Be. He's Performed 20,000 Nights. How Many Shoes Have Been Shined? How Much Mascara Put On? Rouge? How Many Of Those Impossible Bowties Have Been Tied? How Many Love Songs Have Been Sung? How Many Dances Have Been Danced? How Many Have Passed To The Sound Of His Music? It's Been Said That A Man Should Not Be Forced To Live Up To His Art. Benny Carter Is One Of The Rare Instances When We Wonder Whether The Great Art That A Man Has Created Can Live Up To Him.

We Started To Confuse Entertainment With Art, Because Art Has A Component Of Entertainment. It Has To Have That Or It Becomes Too Boring. It Becomes Too Lost In Its Own Devices. But I Just Think That We Started To Lose, And Even Before That, It's Not Necessary.

Music Is The Art Of All The Invisible Things That Are Real. Art, Emotion, Spiritual Essence, Consciousness - These Things Are Hard To Prove. Music Helps You To Focus On Your Sound. We Understand That For Very Young Kids.