Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
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Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.
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.
Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.
Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.
Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.