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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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"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
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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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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
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"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."
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"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."
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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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"I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today."
Today
"All that violence in the world, we need to stop that."
Violence
"I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11."
Love
"Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers."
Peace
"I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little."
Love
"My parents were Christian."
Christian
"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
"It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful."
Love
"I didn't grow up to call a woman a ho. That's just how I was brought up. I won't call a girl a bitch, unless she wants me to call her a bitch."
Woman
"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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