"I was totally into jazz in my teens."

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"I was exposed to jazz early on."

Mark White, American Musician

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"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."

Norman Granz, American Musician

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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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"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."

Matthew Shipp, American Musician

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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."

Mose Allison, American Musician

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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."

Gary Cherone, American Musician

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"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."

Herbie Hancock, American Musician

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"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."

Rita Coolidge, 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."

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"In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom."

Freedom

"I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created."

Sound

"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."

Guitar

"More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp."

Guitar

"It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward."

Past

"I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating."

Language

"It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore."

Hope

"I actually think I play better now than I've ever played."

Now

"It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band."

Today

"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."

Guitar