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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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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
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"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."
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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'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."
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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
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"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."
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"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
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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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"There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that."
Jazz
"I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece."
Chance
"If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit."
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"You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key."
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"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing."
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"The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation."
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