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"I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences."
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"The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that."
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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 like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer."
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"I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet."
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"I was totally into jazz in my teens."
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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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"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."
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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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"Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition."
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"What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music."
Music
"I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11."
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"My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from."
Life
"You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems."
Money
"My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it."
Change
"I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little."
Love
"All that violence in the world, we need to stop that."
Violence
"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."
Artist
"When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it."
Money
"I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work."
Music
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