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Vote:   | Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned. |
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Vote: | But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation. |
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Vote: | Everything else, they can listen to over the radio and know how to do it. Jazz seems to be a little more complicated. |
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Vote: | I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do. |
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Vote: | I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan. |
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Vote: | I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different. |
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Vote: | If everybody gets in there and sees that and understands that, then it lets them know that they're all human beings and creatures of God. |
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Vote: | If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools. |
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Vote: | If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level. |
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Vote: | It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together. |
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Vote: | It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now. |
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Vote: | It was always a learning process. |
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Vote: | It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Jazz has still not gotten to the point where it is totally, the most, the greatest thing is happening in music. |
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Vote: | Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't. |
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Vote: | Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it. |
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Vote: | Look, jazz has always had, because of its origins, that's the only reason. It's the only reason it's like that. Where it came from. It's not accepted. |
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Vote: | Music. It's all creativity right here, right now. |
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Vote: | Not just younger people but older people, too, because the drums are that kind of instrument where people are not intimidated. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time. |
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Vote: | The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. |
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Vote: | The United States is a beautiful place, you know? |
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Vote: | There are no wrongs and rights. You give your heart. It all depends on how wide-open you are. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed. |
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Vote: | To know the tradition of the music, you have to know about certain people and certain concepts. It's a learning process. |
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Vote: | You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice. |