I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.
Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.
Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.
I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.
The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia.
So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.
I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.
I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.
The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.
Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved.
No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.
The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
General Motors spends more on health care than steel.
For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.
Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
