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"It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself."
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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 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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"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
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"We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment."
Environment
"You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life."
Life
"It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz."
Jazz
"Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different."
Music
"I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism."
Buddhism
"It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself."
Jazz
"The music becomes something that is its own entity."
Music
"One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing."
People
"Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference."
Life
"But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already."
Truth
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