Every now and then, someone comes along - we used to call it 'New Jack' - tries to do something new, tries to take all the credit, without acknowledging the past.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.
In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'
People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.
I've certainly had to bite my tongue on occasion and live to fight another day, so to speak, on certain things. But when you're new and fresh, you come out and think, 'I don't want to screw my chance up, so I'll go along with what everybody else does.'
The New Age, I think, is a term that is well laid to rest.
Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.