"I was totally into jazz in my teens."

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"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."

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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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"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 think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."

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"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."

Van Morrison, British Musician

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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."

John Otto, American Musician

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"I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before."

John Goodman, American Actor

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"I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me."

Ted Rall, American Cartoonist

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"Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything."

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

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"I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work."

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"I would like to play with electronic keyboards again."

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"There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life."

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"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."

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

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"I don't have a great nostalgia for the past."

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"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."

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"I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion."

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