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"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."
Jazz,
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"Hearing the blues changed my life."
Life
"A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception."
Perception
"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 don't think nostalgia has to be negative."
Negative
"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."
People
"You've got to separate the singer and the songs."
Music
"In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing."
Cards
"Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play."
Love
"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."
Attention
"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."
Imagination
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"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."
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"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."
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"Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me."
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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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"I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio."
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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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"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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"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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