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"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."
Jazz,

"Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me."

"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."
Jazz,

"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."

"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation."
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"That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business."

"I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly."

"Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off."

"My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this."

"So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on."
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