The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

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.

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.