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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 try not to do anything by 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 don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."
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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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"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."
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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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"It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One."
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"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."
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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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"I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show."
Culture
"I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself."
Care
"There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record."
Music
"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
"A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format."
Time
"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
Jazz
"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
"If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold."
Love
"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
Jazz
"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
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