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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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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."
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"I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space."
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"I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice."
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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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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."
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"I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound."
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"We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound."
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"A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up."
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"Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band."
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"When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it."
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"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
Jazz
"Listening is the key to everything good in music."
Music
"I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times."
Day
"People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds."
Time
"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
Jazz
"I hate the way chorus boxes sound."
Hate
"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 think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
Jazz
"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."
Time
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