They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

We're here to have a ball.

They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.

The people know more about [Jazz] in other countries than in America. America is the last country to know about anything, because we're too fat, we have too much of everything, you understand? And we do not listen.