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Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition.
Jazz is an endless source of ideas, because you can use anything. You can play operatic arias. You can incorporate them into jazz. You can play gypsy music and incorporate it into jazz. You can European classical and you can incorporate it into jazz. You can use anything and jazz it up, as they used to say.
Many jazz artists go to L. A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.
I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.
[Iraqis] know we own their country. . . It's a good thing, especially when there is a lot of oil out there we need.
When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.
Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
Glance is the enemy of vision.