When Did We Begin To Lose Faith

Walt Whitman's "leaves Of Grass" Is Still In Print. They're Debating Right Now Over Mark Twain. He's Still Available. Winslow Homer Can Still Be Seen. Our Arts Are - They're There. We Got To Go Get Them And Understand That This Is An Important Legacy For Our Country.

What Takes Its Place Is Very Dry Education. And The Tools That Actually Can Teach You - Singing And Playing, Learning How To Participate With Other People, Spiritual Richness - Are Replaced With A Big Emphasis On How To Memorize Things. That's Such An Incomplete Education. Survival Of The Fittest Used To Mean Being Bigger And Stronger.

I Got My First Trumpet When I Was Six Years Old, From Al Hirt. My Father Was Playing In Al Hirt's Band At That Time.

Trumpet Players Are Just Belligerant, And Cocky, And You Know, Just Hard-headed.

Instead Of Imposing Your Will On Every Situation...focus On Including Everyone Else, And Just That Little Adjustment Of Attitude Gives You The Space To Understand Where And Who You Are.