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"I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound."
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"I don't think you can contrive any sound."
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"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."
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"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves."
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"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show."
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"My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut."
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"Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace."
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"If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good."
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"Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes."
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"The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it."
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"I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound."
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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
Jazz
"It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place."
Soul
"The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn."
First
"I hate the way chorus boxes sound."
Hate
"From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles."
Culture
"I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound."
Sound
"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
Jazz
"The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities."
Beauty
"I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young."
Work
"I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted."
Music
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