Steve Conte is a musician known for his memorable guitar work as a member of New York Dolls, as well as his collaborations with Japanese composer Yoko Kanno on the soundtracks to several hit anime series
All rockers would be able to appreciate jazz If I can appreciate all types of music, including punk rock, garage rock, metal and jazz, others can too! I’ve actually heard rockers say, “Jazz just sounds like a bunch of wrong notes!” No, fool: it’s another language. If you only speak English and you hear someone speaking Norwegian it’s going to sound like gibberish to you. People need to open their minds to other languages, cultures—and music. It makes the world a richer, more vibrant and colourful place.
We would save the arts in schools
We’ve got to stop cutting our arts programmes for kids in schools. Every member of society benefits from having kids being creative and thinking outside of the box. From music to visual art to writing, these programmes help children develop hand-eye coordination, creativity, concentration, self-expression and risk-taking. So we need to stop the book banning and imposing one set of religious beliefs on kids, and get them thinking for themselves.
Mass transit would be more comfortable Airlines, for instance, need to get back to making flying a pleasant experience, not one of dread, hassles and extra charges. Not only are they charging extra for marginally different seats, they charge you just to change to another seat of the same kind. They even charge you for coffee now. I get it, the costs of fuel and other things have gone up—but as with most corporations, the big bosses in their corner offices with their huge salaries aren’t willing to take a little financial hit—they’re just going to pass the misery down to their paying customers. This would change in my world.
We would tax the rich accordingly so that we can have more programmes and funds to feed and house the poor
Of course, it’s not my place to say how much money is enough for people to have, but when they see that so many of our problems stem from the disparity between socio-economic groups, doesn’t it make them feel a little something? Nah…I guess not. But the politicians can do something about it, if they can stop appeasing the lobbyists.
Politics would be fact based Not alternate facts, actual facts. Not half-truths, but truths. Not theories
