People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

There is no communication in this world except between equals.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.