The Genius Of Our Country Is Improvisation,

I Am Passionately Interested In Understanding How My Country Works. And If You Want To Know About This Thing Called The United States Of America You Have To Know About The Civil War.

Louis Armstrong Is Quite Simply The Most Important Person In American Music. He Is To 20th Century Music (i Did Not Say Jazz) What Einstein Is To Physics.

The Reason Why You Do History, And Particularly Why You Do War, Is That You Want To Make Sure That In The Next War, Some Lessons Were Learned. There's A Saying: "history Doesn't Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme." Or Ecclesiastes: "what Has Been Will Be Again. What Has Been Done Will Be Done Again." Human Nature Always Superimposes Itself - Its Strength And Its Frailty Over The Rush Of Chaos Of Ongoing Events - And We Can Perceive Patterns And Themes And Motifs.

I Think The Problem With A Lot Of The Fusion Music Is That Its Extremely Predictable, Its A Rock Rhythm And The Solos All Play The Same Stuff And They Play It Over And Over Again And Theres A Certain Musical Virtuosity Involved In It.

There Are No Ordinary Lives.