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Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

People want to have access to jazz because it has a vibe that's very strong.

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.