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"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."
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"I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races."
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"It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One."
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"Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula."
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"I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula."
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"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."
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"Under each formula lies a corpse."
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"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"
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"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."
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"They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera."
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"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."
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"There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over."
Music
"You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't."
Work
"We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid."
Play
"What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America."
America
"If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay."
People
"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
Jazz
"The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid."
People
"I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company."
Money
"That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you."
Future
"The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music."
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