I realized that the only purpose to revolution is to be able to love who you want, how you want, when you want and where you want.
Jazz never ends. . . it just continues.
Jazz is an endless source of ideas, because you can use anything. You can play operatic arias. You can incorporate them into jazz. You can play gypsy music and incorporate it into jazz. You can European classical and you can incorporate it into jazz. You can use anything and jazz it up, as they used to say.
Many jazz artists go to L. A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.
I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.
Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody's job and don't just settle.
No matter how many times something has been observed, it cannot be believed until it has been observed again.
You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land. You'll essentially have to introduce neo-feudalism. You'll have to roll the clock of history back a thousand years, and reduce the European population to debt slavery. It's as simple a solution as the Eurozone has imposed on Greece. And it's a solution that the leaders and the banks are urging for responsible economists to promote for the population at large.
Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.