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Video Gallery Clip Transcript: Randy Weston

Your heartbeat is your drum, your voice is your sound and music is the sacred art, it's the language that we cannot see, we cannot touch, but it's the language of the universe and language of the planet that everybody can understand. So to make me better understand Dizzy and Duke and Louis how they can go all around over the world and be understood and speak a language that the people in Norway can understand, the people in Congo can understand, the people in Jamaica can understand, it's a very high, high language.