We're going to kill ourselves this week to bring the spirit of jazz (back to New Orleans). |
We're not afraid of opposition - we welcome discussion. |
We've seen each other a lot of times, but it's the first time we had played ... and it was great, |
You had the good-time people right next to a lot of real church people. |
You miss your family and your kids, ... There are long drives everyday; concerts finish at 10:30 and then you sign autographs until maybe 2 or 3 o'clock; you leave maybe at 7, and you do that 5 or 6 days in a row. |
Your life is valuable and worth something, and look at this contribution that we are bringing to this country. |
[Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis says it's very] painful ... New Orleans is like the soul of our country. |
[Jesse Jackson drove that point home with blunt-force trauma when he assessed the scene in New Orleans and declared that] it looks like Africans in the hull of a slave ship. ... we hear a lot of words, but we don’t see a lot of action. |