As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
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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 think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.
Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.
Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year.
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 is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.
I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
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