The Musicians I Respected Were Much Older

Who Creates A Thing Is Not As Important As What The Thing Is. Who Created Baseball? Who Created Basketball? Who Created The Space Program? Who Created - We Could Go On And On. We Could Argue About Who Created Something. We All Are Participants In It.

You Don't Try To Duplicate Certain Things That Other Cats Do, Because You Could Never Do It As Well As They Do. Nobody Can Get On That Tenor Saxophone And Play Like Trane, Because He's The Only One Who Can Spell Out Chords And Sound Good When He Does It.

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.

I Feel That For Years Of Teaching In The Country And Reading Criticism In Books, I Feel Like The Things Most Needed In Our Culture Are The Understanding Of The Meanings Of Our Music. We Haven't Done That Good Of Job Teaching Our Kids What Our Music Means Or How We Developed Our Taste In Music That Reminds Us And Teaches Us Who We Are.

Many Of Our Greatest Musicians Abandoned All Of Their Aesthetic Objectives To Try To Become Pertinent. And, At The End Of The Day, They Never Became Pop Stars. I Counter Stated That Very Strongly, And I Continue To Do That.