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"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."
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"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."
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"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
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"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
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"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."
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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
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"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."
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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
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"I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me."
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"Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything."
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"A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges."
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"You have to pack as much as you can in an hour or 70 minutes. This time around it was 15 songs, so it was a challenge to get them all the right length so you could get them all on."
Time
"Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself."
Friendship
"I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really."
Music
"I never really thought about becoming a professional musician."
Thought
"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."
Jazz
"To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites."
Life
"The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time."
Time
"I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear."
Art
"I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine."
Music
"Joe's been my drummer for 14 years, and we've been buddies for six years."
Years
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