Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood. – Whitley Strieber
A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and theyre there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity. – Harry Connick, Jr.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned. – Charles Sumner