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The Whole Point Of Working And Practicing Your Whole Life Is So That You're Ready When That Moment Arrives; When The Inspiration Arrives, You Are Ready To Be At The Disposal Of Inspiration.

If I Can Get Out Of The Way, If I Can Be Pure Enough, If I Can Be Selfless Enough, And If I Can Be Generous And Loving And Caring Enough To Abandon What I Have In My Own Preconceived Silly Notions Of What I Think I Am - And Become Truly Who In Fact I Am, Which Is Really Just Another Child Of God - Then The Music Can Really Use Me. And Therein Lies My Fulfillment. That's When The Music Starts To Happen.

In A Certain Sense, These Were Lessons I Learned By Playing With Indian Musicians. The Rhythmic Forms That They Use Are Very Complex, And Very Challenging. In Order To Play In Fifteen, Or Eleven, Or Seven Or Even Five, You Have To Have Mastered That Time In Order To Be Able To Be Free With The Music.

I Don't Have Any Particular Goals In Making A Recording. In A Way The Recording Is Itself The Goal. The Music Comes Into My Mind, And From There The Main Job Is To Give Form To It.

Question: Does It Frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, That Someone Like Obama, Who Fits The Stereotype Blacks Once Labeled As An Oreo -- A Black On The Outside, A White On The Inside -- That An Oreo Should Be The Beneficiary Of The Long Civil Rights Struggle Which Jesse Jackson Spent His Lifetime Fighting For?