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"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."
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"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."
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"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."
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"I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player."
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"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"
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"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."
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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."
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"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."
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"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."
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"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."
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"One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show."
Time
"I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to."
Jazz
"It would be Beyonce Knowles, because we are around the same age and I think she sings very, very well."
Age
"I actually don't feel famous."
Famous
"Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask."
People
"I'm trying to remain unfamous."
Trying
"Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12."
Now
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