If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

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Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

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If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

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The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.

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The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

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Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

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I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.

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It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

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