Don't Bullshit' Just Play.

We Learn A Language Through Its Song, And Even If You Don't Have Music You Have The Song Of People You Love's Voice, And You'll Notice That Song In Their Voice.

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.

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.

I Think That When The Education System Started To Be Dismantled During The First Great Depression In The 1930s, We Didn't Recover From That.