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Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

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 music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

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.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

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.