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"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
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"I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan."
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"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."
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"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
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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 something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
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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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"I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet."
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"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught."
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"I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice."
Guitar

"My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around."
Music

"I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility."
Love

"I was a guitar player first off."
First

"I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."
Artist

"I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything."
Time

"My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together."
Music

"I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life."
Life

"There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are."
Men

"I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one."
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