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I Think We Continually Need To Understand How Important An Event The War Was - How Defining, How Central To Who We Are. Everything That Came Before It Led Up To It, And Everything Of Importance To This Country - At Least Up To 1940 - Was A Consequence Of It. Even Now There's An Echo Of The War, However Faint, In Almost Everyone's Life.

People Tend To Forget That The Word "history" Contains The Word "story".

I Have Made A Film About Jazz That Tries To Look Through Jazz To See What It Tells Us About Who We Are As A People. I Think That Jazz Is A Spectacularly Accurate Model Of Democracy And A Kind Of Look Into Our Redemptive Future Possibilities.

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

Wynton Told Us That Miles Sold Out, Just Wanted To Make More Money, Just Wanted To Sell More Records. I Don't Believe That Miles Sold Out But I'm Not In A Position To Say.