13/3/2009
“I have no problem with an art form being elitist,” he said when asked if it bothers him that jazz has turned from folk music into an “elitist” type of music. “There is so much noise today that being able to discern what is beautiful requires a lot of effort. Few people will go to the trouble to do that. Few will have the curiosity. But jazz is not elitist – it is marginalized and ignored. All those musicians struggling to pay their bills would not describe it as elitist.”
— Brad Mehldau
