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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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"Listening is the key to everything good in music."
Music
"The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities."
Beauty
"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
Jazz
"I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times."
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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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"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."
Music
"I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young."
Work
"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."
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"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."
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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
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"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."
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"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."
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"Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me."
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"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."
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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 think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio."
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"I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player."
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"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"
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"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."
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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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