There's Always The Cliche Of The Choir

Benny Goodman's Band Was Integrated Before Baseball. Even Before It Was Physically Integrated, Music Was Integrated. Everyone Listened To Armstrong And Ellington. The 20s Was Called The Jazz Age. It's Part Of Being American.

My Daddy Expected That My Brothers And I And Our Generation Would Make The World A Better Place. He Had Lived In An America Of Continual Social Progress.

Only A Few Act - The Rest Of Us Reap The Benefits Of Their Risk.

Let The Critics Criticize And Let The Doers Do.

My Father Was A Teacher, My Mama Was A Community Worker, I Taught In So Many Schools. So When You Get That Experience Of How To Communicate With Younger People, Put That Hand On Them And Give Them That Old-school Feeling, The Maturity And Adult, A Lot Of Our Kids Just Need The Feeling Of That Love, And That's The Frame Of Reference That I Teach From And That's The Frame Of Reference That All Of Our Musicians In The Jazz At Lincoln Center.