"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."

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"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."

"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."

"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."

"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."

"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."

"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."

"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."

"I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me."

"Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything."

"A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges."

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"We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album."

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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."

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"Sometimes the band can't fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I've also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that."

"When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building."

"It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about."

"I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing."

"I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that."

"I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand."