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. 
It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.
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.
You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.
There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed. 
It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now. 
If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level. 
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. 
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. 
The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time. 
The United States is a beautiful place, you know? 