People want to have access to jazz because it has a vibe that's very strong.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
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.
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.
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.
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 music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
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