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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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"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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"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."
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"His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?"
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"Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name."
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"Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing."
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"What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate."
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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."
Jazz
"People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world."
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"I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde."
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"I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed."
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