"The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract."

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I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy.

— Wynton Marsalis