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"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."
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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
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"It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself."
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"I was exposed to jazz early on."
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"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."
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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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"In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz."
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"The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice."
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"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."
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"I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan."
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"Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me."
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"I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter."
Music
"Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention."
Discipline
"This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses."
Work
"We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars."
American
"We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol."
Alcohol
"We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through."
Building
"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."
Jazz
"I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really."
Sex
"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."
Sound
"My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton."
Harmony
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