 I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan. |
| The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level. |
| Music. It's all creativity right here, right now. |
| The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time. |
| There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed. |
| 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. |
| It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together. |
| The United States is a beautiful place, you know? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do. |
| If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level. |
| You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice. |
| 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. |
| The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. |
| It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now. |
| Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't. |
| 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. |
