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"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
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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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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
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"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."
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"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."
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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
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"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."
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"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
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"I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player."
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"As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe."
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"More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio."
Career
"I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career."
Career
"That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff."
Evolution
"I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people."
People
"Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion."
Music
"That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before."
People
"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."
Jazz
"Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road."
Career
"We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way."
Technology
"Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues."
Blessing
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