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"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."
Jazz,
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"Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play."
People
"If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you."
People
"I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one."
Care
"I have no one style."
Style
"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."
Jazz
"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
Idea
"I am the worlds laziest writer."
Writer
"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
Musicians
"The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that."
Love
"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
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"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."
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"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."
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"Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me."
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"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."
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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 think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio."
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"I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player."
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"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"
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"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."
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"I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to."
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