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"I was exposed to jazz early on."
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"I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences."
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"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
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"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
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"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."
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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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"And I used to listen to a lot of jazz."
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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."
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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
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"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
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"How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?"
Art
"I can concentrate on my art."
Art
"But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but."
Doubt
"The most important part of my religion is to play guitar."
Religion
"Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful."
Night
"Music was what bothered me, what interested me."
Music
"I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything."
Business
"I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be."
Artist
"I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego."
Art
"I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine."
Nostalgia
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