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"Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them."
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"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."
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"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
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"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."
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"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."
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"Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach."
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"It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself."
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"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"
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"Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes out on Monday nights. That's been going for 33 years or something."
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"I was exposed to jazz early on."
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"He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done."
Day
"I don't care how small the game. I want to win."
Care
"Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything."
Forget
"I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life."
Life
"I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect."
Being
"Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter,' never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go."
Job
"Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them."
Jazz
"Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan."
Time
"Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools."
Technology
"When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before."
Chance
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