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"I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted."
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"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
"I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted."
"My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent."
"It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place."
"From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles."
"People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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