"If it has more than three chords, it's jazz."

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"I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one."

Glenn Miller, American Musician

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"I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet."

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"I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."

Count Basie, American Musician

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"Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple."

Keith Jarrett, American Composer

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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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"Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat."

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"There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time."

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"When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment."

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"I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play."

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"I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future."

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"I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me."

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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."

"I was exposed to jazz early on."

"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."

"The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice."

"Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me."

"I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one."

"I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet."

"I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."

"Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple."

"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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"Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat."

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"I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play."

"I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future."

"I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me."

"I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen."

"Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things."

"Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful."

"I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says."