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• ‟ I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

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• ‟ I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.

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• ‟ There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.

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• ‟ All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz.

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• ‟ I believe deeply that jazz is still a very vital music that has much to say, not just to eggheads, or whatever the musical equivalent of an egghead is, but to ordinary people.

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• ‟ In the early days of jazz, it was ensemble music: everybody playing all together. Nobody really stood out.

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• ‟ Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz.

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• ‟ Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.

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• ‟ No cowboy songs, no hoedowns. It's a more serious piece. Yet every bar of 'Appalachian Spring' is clear, clean, tonal, intelligible - great music that anyone can grasp at first hearing.

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