Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
It's funny to find there are still people around who think if a musician has schooling, it automatically makes him a lesser jazz player. But you don't learn jazz in school.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
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