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Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they track the trumpet and the singer comes in and they ship the tape somewhere. Well, none of the musicians have played together. You can’t play jazz music that way. In order for you to play jazz, you’ve got to listen to them. The music forces you at all times to address what other people are thinking and for you to interact with them with empathy and to deal with the process of working things out. And that’s how our music really could teach what the meaning of American democracy is.


Wynton Marsalis


#democracy #jazz #ken-burns #music

But democrats are seldom welcome on planets run by totalitarian governments, and scarcely more welcome on planets where anarchy prevails--this is due to the very nature of democracy, the only practical compromise between totalitarianism and anarchy.


Christopher Stasheff


#democracy #totalitarianism #nature

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.


King Abdullah II


#broad #class #coming #democracy #democratic

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.


Margaret Atwood


#course #dead #democracy #else #everything

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.


Ibrahim Babangida


#experience #foundation #history #informed #lasting

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.


Ibrahim Babangida


#any #country #democracy #either #foundation

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.


Irving Babbitt


#democracy #essence #man #melodrama #might

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?


Tatyana Ali


#been #democracy #ever #institution #slavery

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.


John Ashcroft


#been #changed #democracy #freedom #got

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.


Karen Armstrong


#friends #fundamentalists #includes #states #united






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