We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted.
Wynton MarsalisI travel up and down the country and I've been all around the middle of America for many years. Middle America is not one big mass of people with a proverbial beer in its hand, keeping the country down. That is not my experience of it and I don't labor under that misconception. And we have a long tradition of coming together through music in our country.
Wynton Marsalis