Ethics Are More Important Than Laws.

As Long As There Is Democracy, There Will Be People Wanting To Play Jazz Because Nothing Else Will Ever So Perfectly Capture The Democratic Process In Sound. Jazz Means Working Things Out Musically With Other People. You Have To Listen To Other Musicians And Play With Them Even If You Don't Agree With What They're Playing. It Teaches You The Very Opposite Of Racism And Anti-semitism. It Teaches You That The World Is Big Enough To Accommodate Us All.

Don't Wish For Someone Else To Do Later What You Can Do Now.

What Is Deeper Than Respect And Love? That’s What We Felt: Veneration.

We No Longer Want To Be A Melting Pot, Because We Don't Understand What Is Already Melted.

Trumpet Players See Each Other, And It's Like We're Getting Ready To Square Off Or Get Into A Fight Or Something.