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"Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also."
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"I was exposed to jazz early on."
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"I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences."
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"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
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"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
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"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."
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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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"And I used to listen to a lot of jazz."
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"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."
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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
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"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"
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"The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument."
Sister
"After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name."
Language
"A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up."
Sound
"The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours."
Car
"Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also."
Jazz
"Then my own TV chat show in England in 1989."
England
"I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for."
Home
"Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde."
Fans
"I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry."
Woman
"As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it."
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