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. |
But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation. |
Everything else, they can listen to over the radio and know how to do it. Jazz seems to be a little more complicated. |
I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do. |
I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan. |
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. |
If everybody gets in there and sees that and understands that, then it lets them know that they're all human beings and creatures of God. |
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. |
If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level. |
It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together. |
It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now. |
It was always a learning process. |
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. |
Jazz has still not gotten to the point where it is totally, the most, the greatest thing is happening in music. |
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't. |