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"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."
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"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
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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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"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."
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"I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to."
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"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."
"I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good."
"It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down."
"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."
"When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration."
"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it."
"My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing."
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