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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
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"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence."

"My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians."

"My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress."

"People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly."

"What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out."

"We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation."

"I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?"

"It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory."
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