"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."

Charlie Hunter, American Musician

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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."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

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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?"

Charlie Watts, British Musician

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

Kevin Eubanks, 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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"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."

Sonny Rollins, American Musician

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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."

Sonny Rollins, American Musician

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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."

Travis Barker, American Musician

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"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."

Herb Alpert, American Musician

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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."

Lucinda Williams, American Musician

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"When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases."

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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."

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

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"Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure."

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"I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it."

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

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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."

"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."

"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"

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

"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."

"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'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."

"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."

"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."

"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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"When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases."

"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."

"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."

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

"Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure."

"I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it."

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

"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."

"We've got many different sides of music to us."