Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this band has already done; what sweet-ass musicians can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale musical arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether the song is too big or too small, but whether it works…
Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, guitar feedback that just rips out your heart with its alien beauty — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history.
Submitted by: Wolf Blitzer