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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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"What we play is life."
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"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
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"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."
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"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician."
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"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song."
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"There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind."
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"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them."
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