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"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught."
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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."
"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
"I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena."
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"We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing."
"I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age."
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