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.

Don't bullshit' just play.

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.

And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.

Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.