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

There Was One Thing Beethoven Didn't Do. When One Of His String Quartets Was Played, You Can Believe The Second Violin Wasn't Improvising.

As Long As There Is Democracy, There Will Be People Wanting To Play Jazz Because Nothing Else Will Ever So Perfectly Capture The Democratic Process In Sound. Jazz Means Working Things Out Musically With Other People. You Have To Listen To Other Musicians And Play With Them Even If You Don't Agree With What They're Playing. It Teaches You The Very Opposite Of Racism And Anti-semitism. It Teaches You That The World Is Big Enough To Accommodate Us All.

It's Our Job To Just Do As Much As We Can To Enlighten The People About It And To Represent It By Playing It With Some Integrity. That's What I Try To Do.

I Love Gustavo Dudamel And I Love What He Does For Classical Music, And I Love What He Comes Out Of, El Sistema And The Old Man Abreu. When We Were In Venezuela, I Had The Chance To Go To His Building. He Had, Like, Five Or Six Orchestras Playing Of Kids From The Hood Playing, Like, Mahler's Third Symphony And Shostakovich Fifth And Beethoven. Man, It's Unbelievable. I Mean, They Could Play.