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Instead Of Imposing Your Will On Every Situation...focus On Including Everyone Else, And Just That Little Adjustment Of Attitude Gives You The Space To Understand Where And Who You Are.

No Particular Music Makes Me Feel Nostalgic. If It's Great, It Just Keeps Me In The Present Moment. That Level Of Music Is Like A Classic Story, Like The Iliad-something So Perfect It Can Never Be Old.

We're Blues People. And Blues Never Lets Tragedy Have The Last Word.

The Only Justification For Looking Down On Anyone Is That You're Going To Stop And Pick Them Up.

When I Came To New York, To Brooklyn, I Met Alvin Ailey And Stanley Crouch And August Wilson. They Were Always Putting Things In A Philosophical Context. All The Great Jazz Musicians Did, Too. There Was Always A Sub-context To What They Were Saying About Music Even Though They Would Be Very Down Home And Earthy. So I Started To Develop, In Addition To My Power And Ability To Simply Hear, A Way To Place Myself In A Time.