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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
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"It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself."
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"I was exposed to jazz early on."
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"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."
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"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."
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"I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff."
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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."
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"In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz."
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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
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"The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice."
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"One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else."
Instinct
"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."
Money
"I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show."
Culture
"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"
Sound
"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?"
Artist
"When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?"
Music
"Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity."
Work
"The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid."
People
"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
Jazz
"You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't."
Work
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