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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?"
"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation."
"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."
"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."
Jazz,
"If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz."
"Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions."
Jazz,
Explore more quotes by Travis Barker
"My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band."
"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."
"But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song."
"I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk."
"I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock."
"In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it."
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