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"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
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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'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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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
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"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."
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"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
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"To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G."
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"I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me."
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"It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about."
Music
"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
Jazz
"I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that."
First
"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."
Jazz
"I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand."
Play
"We've got many different sides of music to us."
Music
"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."
Time
"We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album."
First
"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."
Sacrifice
"When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building."
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