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"I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show."
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"Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music."
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"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."
"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."
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"You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't."
"If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so."
"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"
"There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over."
"What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America."
"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
"I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company."
"Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic."
"If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay."
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