There's a lot of female singers and I don't want to dismiss them, but the male - and I have to be careful - the black male voice in jazz, whatever you say, is an important voice, because there's a tradition of the music that should be touched on, there's a sound that should be touched on.

The funny thing about nationalism is that there are two sides to it. Some parts of it are beautiful, but there's an ugly side as well.

When there's an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that's negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die.

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