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"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."

"You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn't, with lotion, polish, and kindness."

"Nothing you build will ever last without a lot of tender-loving-care (TLC)."

"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."

"One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do."
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"Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own."
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"You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't."

"If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so."

"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."

"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"

"There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over."

"What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America."

"My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician."

"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."

"I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company."

"Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic."
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