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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.

I'll Write Down And Catalogue All The Different Devices That Are Americana To Me, And I Try To Have A Historic Depth And Breadth And Also The Things That We Do In Our Time, The Type Of Vamps And Chants, Things That Are Available To Us.

If You're Not Making Mistakes, You're Not Trying.

The History Of Jazz Lets Us Know That This Period In Our History Is Not The Only Period We've Come Through Together. If We Truly Understood The History Of Our National Arts, We'd Know That We Have Mutual Aspirations, A Shared History, In Good Times And Bad.

Everything Comes Out In Blues Music: Joy, Pain, Struggle. Blues Is Affirmation With Absolute Elegance. It's About A Man And A Woman. So The Pain And The Struggle In The Blues Is That Universal Pain That Comes From Having Your Heart Broken. Most Blues Songs Are Not About Social Statements.