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I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals.

It's always fun to talk about jazz.

I've always loved jazz.

The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad.

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

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.