When those who are educated using their education to exploit those who aren't. That's what the sub-prime scandal represents - people of education using it at the expense of others. At Jazz at Lincoln Center, we have 22 educational programs. Not just the word but the substance of education is guided by the arts.

New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.

There's the tradition in jazz of having the “Battle of the Bands” and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.

It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.