When Did We Begin To Lose Faith

Art Is A Luxury. It's Not Necessary For You To - You Can Work Your Job And You Can Make Some Money And Never Know Who Walt Whitman Was, And Never Read A Poem.

For Me As A Person Who's In The Arts And As Someone Who Understands The Magnitude Of Our Contributions And The Price That Was Paid To Contribute To That, That We Just Have Not Gotten That Together. I Will Do All That I Can To Get In Front Of Our Kids, To Try To Teach Them, But At A Certain Point The People Have To Want It And Come Towards It.

The History Of Jazz Lets Us Know That This Period In Our History Is Not The Only Period We've Come Through Together. If We Truly Understood The History Of Our National Arts, We'd Know That We Have Mutual Aspirations, A Shared History, In Good Times And Bad.

Music Is Always For The Listener, But The First Listener Is Always The Musician

It Was Dr. King's Tireless Activism That Fostered Our Modern Way Of Relating To One Another.