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"I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one."
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"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."
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"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
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"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
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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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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
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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 don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan."
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"I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to."
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"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."
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"By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight."
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"Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money."
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"I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one."
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"I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did."
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