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I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time. ”
Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies. ”
As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again. ”
By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses. ”
By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching. ”
The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important. ”
The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten. ”
In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments. ”
After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn. ”
I feel like you listen your whole life, so when you are in the studio, your references are all the songs and music that you know. It just depends on where the songs are going and what attracts you at the moment. ”