I Don't Use Composers. I Research Music

We're Having A Hard Time Understanding Where Jazz Is Going. What Happened To Jazz?

World War Ii Is Smothered In Sentimentality And Nostalgia. What's Interesting About Vietnam Is That Sentimentality Is Just Not There, So You're Given Kind Of A Clean Access To It In One Way. It's Also A War That Represents A Failure For The United States. Many People Came Back Feeling Like They Never Wanted To Talk About It Again. And So We Developed A National Amnesia.

One Of The Things I Really Like About Ford's Films Is How There Is Always A Focus On The Way Characters Live, And Not Just The Male Heroes.

You Don't Work On Something For Six Years And Be Blind To The Myriad Of Other Approaches.

Jazz Is A Very Accurate, Curiously Accurate Accompaniment To 20th Century America.