The Only Justification For Looking Down On

I Grew Up In The South, In New Orleans, Where Guys Torture You All The Time. So I Didn't Really Grow Up On The Self-esteem Campaign. When You Were Lousy At Something, They Told You You Were Lousy, And They Told You How To Fix It.

The Arts Shows That You're Civilized, And It Makes Life Sweet. So You Can Exist And You Can Buy More Things And You Can Be More - We're Dealing With A Form Of Commercialism That Obscures A Prior Relationship To Quality, And It's A National Problem.

In The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra We Play Such A Diversity Of Music, With 10 Arrangers In The Band, We Don't Really Worry About Whether It's Contemporary Or Not.

When Those Who Are Educated Using Their Education To Exploit Those Who Aren't. That's What The Sub-prime Scandal Represents - People Of Education Using It At The Expense Of Others. At Jazz At Lincoln Center, We Have 22 Educational Programs. Not Just The Word But The Substance Of Education Is Guided By The Arts.

I Feel Like A Lot Of The Fundamental Material, I've Assimilated. So Now The Question Is: Am I Going To Really Get Into My Spiritual Inheritance Of Music And Really Develop My Abilities?