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Jazz Comes From Our Way Of Life, And Because It's Our National Art Form, It Helps Us To Understand Who We Are.

I Almost Never Watch Tv, Except For '60 Minutes' And Pro Football. I Love Drew Brees, The Manning Brothers And The Steelers' Linebackers.

My Father Was A Teacher, My Mama Was A Community Worker, I Taught In So Many Schools. So When You Get That Experience Of How To Communicate With Younger People, Put That Hand On Them And Give Them That Old-school Feeling, The Maturity And Adult, A Lot Of Our Kids Just Need The Feeling Of That Love, And That's The Frame Of Reference That I Teach From And That's The Frame Of Reference That All Of Our Musicians In The Jazz At Lincoln Center.

I Believed In Studying Just Because I Knew Education Was A Privilege. It Was The Discipline Of Study, To Get Into The Habit Of Doing Something That You Don't Want To Do.

We Need More Math Classes, We Need More Science. It's The Art Of Math And The Art Of Science That Creates All The Innovation, And We Have A Tradition Of Great Arts, Great Music.