The First Jazz Musician Was A Trumpeter,

The Real Power Of Jazz Is That A Group Of People Can Come Together And Create Improvised Art And Negotiate Their Agendas... And That Negotiation Is The Art

There Is An Idea That A Mind Is Wasted On The Arts Unless It Makes You Good In Math Or Science. There Is Some Evidence That The Arts Might Help You In Math And Science.

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.

You Can Reach A Situation Where Things Of Intelligence And Refinement And Culture Can Be Considered Elite, And Things That Are Crass And Ignorant Can Be Considered To Be Real And Of The People. And When You Begin To Have The Mass Of Populus Striving For Something That's Not Worth Striving For, Then Tremendous Amounts Of Energy Go Into...the Maintenance Of That Which Is Worthless.

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.