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John Mayall

"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."

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

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

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"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."

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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."

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"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."

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"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."

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"I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player."

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"As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe."

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"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."
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"I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine."
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"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."
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"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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"I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear."
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"I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really."
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"I never really thought about becoming a professional musician."
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"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."
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John Mayall
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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."
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