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Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.

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

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.

It's always fun to talk about jazz.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

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

We all know that jazz demands a cultivation of the mind.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

Jazz is about being in the moment.