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"Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas."
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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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"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 continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."
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"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
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"Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light."
Love
"I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected."
Music
"Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country."
Country
"That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty."
Honesty
"My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved."
Anger
"So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's."
Opportunity
"Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas."
Jazz
"I've been overweight all my life."
Life
"Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful."
Faith
"I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight."
Doctors
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