When I Say "our," I Definitely Mean

Who Creates A Thing Is Not As Important As What The Thing Is. Who Created Baseball? Who Created Basketball? Who Created The Space Program? Who Created - We Could Go On And On. We Could Argue About Who Created Something. We All Are Participants In It.

Music Is Always For The Listener, But The First Listener Is Always The Musician

One Thing About Excellence, It&mac226;s An Exclusive Club. And It&mac226;s Only For Those Who Really Want To Pay Dues To The S--. My Daddy Told Me When I Was A Boy: The Only Way You Can Be Different From Other People Is To Do Some S-- They Don't Want To Do.

Many Heroic Things Happened During Slavery. And Remember That There Was A National Movement Away From It Even At The Time. The Era Of Reconstruction And Then The Subsequent Dismantling Of Reconstruction Sent Us In A Tailspin. Then We Had The Civil Rights Movement. Now We Have Our First Non-white President. We Have A Pattern Of Moving Apart And Then Coming Back Together Throughout The History Of This Country. Each Time, We Come Closer.

Flexibility Is An Essential Part Of Jazz. It's What Gives Jazz Music The Ability To Combine With All Other Types Of Music And Not Lose Its Identity.