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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."
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"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."
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"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."
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"I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music."
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"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want."
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"I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time."
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"To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed."
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"Listening is the key to everything good in music."
Music
"Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music."
Love
"I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted."
Music
"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
Jazz
"I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young."
Work
"The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn."
First
"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
Jazz
"I hate the way chorus boxes sound."
Hate
"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."
Sound
"My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent."
Time
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