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"I was exposed to jazz early on."
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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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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
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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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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
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"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."
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"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."
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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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"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."
Business
"I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous."
Love
"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."
Change
"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."
Attention
"These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over."
Religion
"I don't think nostalgia has to be negative."
Negative
"Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat."
Music
"Hearing the blues changed my life."
Life
"There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles."
Life
"I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across."
Want
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