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You Have To Get Past The Idea That Music Has To Be One Thing. To Be Alive In America Is To Hear All Kinds Of Music Constantly: Radio, Records, Churches, Cats On The Street, Everywhere Music. And With Records, The Whole History Of Music Is Open To Everyone Who Wants To Hear It.

You Can't Make Rules Regarding The Moral Behavior Of Something Unless You Know What The Hell It Is, And What It's Capacities Are. What It Can Do, What It Can't Do.

We Are Experiencing A Real Confusion Here In The United States, You Know. Why Is It Ok To Drink, But It's Not Ok To Take Drugs? Blah, Blah, Blah. What's A Crime? What's Criminality? What Can You Do, What Can't You Do, And So Forth. All These Things Are Really Confusing. A Lot Of It Is Really Contradictory; It Doesn't Really Make Sense.

Western Ears Have A Hard Time Hearing Anything That Isn't In Four-four Time. A Lot Of Cultures Experience Music In Five-eight, For Example, Five-four.

As A Musician You Fall Into Certain Patterns That You're Not Conscious Of, Unless You Start Listening To Yourself On Tape A Lot. If You Do That You Start Recognizing Habits; Then You Have To Try And Break Them.