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"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."
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"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."
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"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."
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"It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice."
"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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"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
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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."
"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."
"I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture."
"I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really."
"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."
"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."
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