Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
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I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
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The music becomes something that is its own entity.
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The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.
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Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.
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World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.
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I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.
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I don't see how we can have both the freedoms we had before and the safety net that we all need considering the way the world is today. And that's just because human beings can't trust each other. We've given in over and over to some of the darkest elements that exist in life itself.
