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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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"Listening is the key to everything good in music."
Music
"The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities."
Beauty
"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
Jazz
"I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times."
Day
"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
Jazz
"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
"I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young."
Work
"I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound."
Sound
"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."
Sound
"My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent."
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"I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop."
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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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"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."
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"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."
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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."
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"I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village."
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"For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times."
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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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"And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit."
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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."
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