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"My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old."
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"Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother."

"I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point."

"At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me."

"We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother."

"Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other."

"Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much."

"Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight."

"P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel."
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"What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff."

"Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now."

"At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically."

"I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band."

"People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don't screw up to the point where you're gonna be out of the picture."

"All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it."

"The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing."

"You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect."
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