“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”
“Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.”
“This is why the classical of the jazz music station plays?to give a ground of meaning to our pain?”
“To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.”
“the grace is being able to like rock music,symphony music, jazz …anything that contains the original energy ofjoy.”
“In his entirely personal experience of them, English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was from the streets. Which is to stay, stab his heart and it would bleed French, slice his brain open and its convolutions would be lined with English and German, and touch his hands and they would feel Spanish.”