"I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio."

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"I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends."

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"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."

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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."

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"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."

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"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"

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"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."

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"I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place."

William Bell, American Musician

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"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation."

Doc Severinsen, American Musician

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"I was exposed to jazz early on."

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"My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players."

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"Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute."

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"The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration."

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"If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool."

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"I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts."

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"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."

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"Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late."

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"I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying."

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"I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge."

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"I choose things by how they resonate in my heart."

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"I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s."

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