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"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."
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"Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around."

"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."

"This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level."

"From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are."

"As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano."

"I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena."

"I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me."
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