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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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"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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"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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"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."
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"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."
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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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"They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera."
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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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"Under each formula lies a corpse."
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"I try not to do anything by formula."
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"One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else."
Instinct
"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."
Formula
"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
"I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show."
Culture
"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"
Sound
"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"
Artist
"When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?"
Music
"Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity."
Work
"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'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
Jazz
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