“All my life, I stubbornly refused to be categorized. Me? I am John Birks Gillespie, but you can call me Dizzy. I don’t play Jazz, I captured people’s feelings, their moods, their ups and downs- the noise they were making- the noise that no one ever got before. You’ve got the horn made of brass and the keyboard made of wood…that was the noise people were making…I see the same poetry in all the faiths of God. In jazz, say the keyboard takes the music to a certain point, then another instrument takes your further. In religion? God picks certain teachers to lead us up to a certain point – each teacher succeeding the other. They each have the same Holy Spirit in their hands, so they are really one in the same. This means that all the prophetAs of God…from Moses, Abraham, Buddha, to Jesus, Muhammad and Baha’u’llah-all speak of the same God. For me, this is the song my music tries to sing; this is the song the Baha’i Faith sings.” I want my music to break down these barriers and bring people together. ”
