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"I was exposed to jazz early on."

Mark White, American Musician

Jazz,

"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."

Norman Granz, American Musician

Jazz, Years

"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."

Branford Marsalis, American Musician

Jazz, Play, Sense

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

Branford Marsalis, American Musician

Jazz,

"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."

Matthew Shipp, American Musician

Jazz, Language, Punk

"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."

Mose Allison, American Musician

Jazz,

"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."

Gary Cherone, American Musician

Jazz,

"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."

Herbie Hancock, American Musician

Jazz, Spirit

"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."

Rita Coolidge, American Musician

Jazz, Journey

"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."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

Jazz, Play, Reason

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"You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype."

History

"I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years."

Years

"I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement."

History

"When people don't get enough information, they make it up."

People

"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."

Jazz

"If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record."

Chance

"Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll."

Woman

"There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you."

People

"The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones."

Guitar

"When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill."

Time