If You Looked Around, You'd Be Glad

I'm Not A Person Who Writes Really Abstract Things With Oblique References. I Look At Abstraction Like I Look At Condiments. Give Me Some Tabasco Sauce, Some Ketchup, Some Mayonnaise. I Love All Of That. Put It On A Trumpet. I've Just Got To Have The Ketchup And Tabasco Sauce. That's My Attitude About Musical Philosophy.

Through Improvisation, Jazz Teaches You About Yourself. And Through Swing, It Teaches You That Other People Are Individuals Too. It Teaches You How To Coordinate With Them.

Let The Critics Criticize And Let The Doers Do.

The Soul Gives Us Resilience - An Essential Quality Since We Constantly Have To Rebound From Hardship.

Jazz Celebrates Older Generations And Not Just The Youth Movement. When You "sell" Only To People Of A Certain Age, You Get Cut Off From The Main Body Of Experience. The Power Of Couple Dancing And Courtship, It's Elegant, And You Wouldn't Realize America Was Once A Nation Of Dancers And Singers Today. People Of All Races Could Dance And Sing.