i have seen a lot of people, a wreath, marvin gaye, -- aretha, marvin gaye, they know their jazz rootsid i want to go all the way. she was funny, she said it is too late to choose like a classical musician because she had been around ray charles too long. i was working clubs at 13. she said jazz musicians are strange because they shack up with music first, then they marry it later. without the signs, -- without the science, how would go all the way. no kind of music scares me. duke ellington, why does he put the person on second tenor sax? the orchestration and arranging was just part of my soul all my life. >tavis: how aggressive are you impressing that message to all of these young folk, that you have to get outside of your comfort zone and learn at all? expose yourself to all of it? >> we have had a hard time. but now we have to organize it and really have an organized basis. a lot of people, david baker, herbie hancock, all the universities. all of these musicians are putting together a curriculum. we are the only country in the world that does not have a minister of culture, the o

marvin gaye. john legenlennon. bob marley.am cooke. >> songs that really touch people deeply. >> i have come to a place where i call it the sound of maternity. bob dylan calls it eternal young. i think there are certain songs that help you live without fear. when you are living in fear, you invest in violence. fear is expensive, just ask president bush. inn love. and what marvin gaye says is true, war is not the answer, only love can conquer hate. these things are not cliches, they are truisms. if we implement them, you will see a transformation in the bay area, richmond, oakland, the mission. all places where we need to dismantle the violence, the fear, the unnecessary pain that goes on. >> you are a person that has lived a pretty miraculous life. pretty extraordinary what you have accomplished, the range of people you have been able to touch with your music. you chose a beautiful word in spanish for your foundation -- miracle. could you talk about what the foundation has been able to do? >> we are able to empower and give yo

like marvin gaye. i would like to thank jerry and diane for helping me to accelerate into a new perception for myself. when we perceive specialists, you can get in trouble -- when we perceive that we are special, you can get in trouble. you need special drugs for special pain because no one understands you. but someone thinks you are special. will you except they your significant and meaningful? then you do not need a doctor. being special is me, myself, and my experience. it will always get you in trouble. when you except that you are significant and meaningful, something happens with the universe, it comes to life. but i look at you the same way that you look at me. the creator made u.s. the same. consciousness. when i travel around the world, especially the united states, people crashed their head. we are very different. if you do not believe me, as clocks once in awhile. [laughter] -- watch fox once in a while. [laughter] i call than the complex clan without sheep -- call them the dlklu klux klan w

." >> the rhythm track was so similar to a song by marvin gaye that i just.inging it and the whole band followed. they said you have to do that. tavis: does that happen often, the band talk you into something? >> nobody tells me what to do. tavis: except the band? >> i said, no, i cannot do that. it was a year to that anniversary, almost to the day. he was my first employer, and there were too many strong connections to say, well, who cares what people say. tavis: since we've mentioned the first record was "abc," take me back those years ago, what do you recall about getting that first album? >> i was the third of four kids, so my older sisters had record collections before i did. to actually have a record that was mine, that my sisters wanted, that was heady stuff for a 6-year-old. i remember playing it over and over. for those who remember holding an album and the smell of it and pictures and all of that, as a kid, that was such a high to drop the needle, especially six years old. you never got to work your parents' record box anyway, but it was a big deal.

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