I Got My First Trumpet

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

The Arts Shows That You're Civilized, And It Makes Life Sweet. So You Can Exist And You Can Buy More Things And You Can Be More - We're Dealing With A Form Of Commercialism That Obscures A Prior Relationship To Quality, And It's A National Problem.

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.

Those Who Play For Applause....tha T’s All They Get.

When Those Who Are Educated Using Their Education To Exploit Those Who Aren't. That's What The Sub-prime Scandal Represents - People Of Education Using It At The Expense Of Others. At Jazz At Lincoln Center, We Have 22 Educational Programs. Not Just The Word But The Substance Of Education Is Guided By The Arts.