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"I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before."
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"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."
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"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."
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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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"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"
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"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."
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"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation."
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"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."
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"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."
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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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"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."
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"If you want to direct, you've got to work."
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"Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children."
Children
"When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones."
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"It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done."
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"I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act."
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"Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living."
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"This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about."
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"I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before."
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"I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy."
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"But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working."
Time
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