"To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G."

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"I was exposed to jazz early on."

Mark White, American Musician

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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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"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."

Matthew Shipp, American Musician

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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."

Mose Allison, American Musician

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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."

Gary Cherone, American Musician

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"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."

Herbie Hancock, American Musician

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"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."

Rita Coolidge, American Musician

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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."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

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"I was exposed to jazz early on."

"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."

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

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

"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."

"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."

"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."

"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."

"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."

"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."

Explore more quotes by Herbie Mann

"You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be."

"One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you."

"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."

"Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing."

"By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together."

"My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania."

"To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G."

"If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house."

"My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus."

"When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now."