Let The Critics Criticize And Let The

I Feel That For Years Of Teaching In The Country And Reading Criticism In Books, I Feel Like The Things Most Needed In Our Culture Are The Understanding Of The Meanings Of Our Music. We Haven't Done That Good Of Job Teaching Our Kids What Our Music Means Or How We Developed Our Taste In Music That Reminds Us And Teaches Us Who We Are.

I Try To Put A Lot Of Our Music In My Music - By That I Mean Of American Music.

If You Didn't Have The Amalgam Of Blacks And African-type Sensibility And European Sensibility, You Wouldn't Have Jazz. Even In The Negative And In The Positive Ways - If There Was No Slavery And The Abolition Of Slavery, There Would Be No Jazz.

So When We Spend All Of Our Time Trying To Separate That Which Is Already Joined, It's A Waste Of Time.

Jazz Is Democracy In Music.