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"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician."
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"I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena."
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"The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice."
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"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."
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"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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"The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy."
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"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."
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"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
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"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."
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"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."
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"Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them."
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"What we play is life."
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"There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind."
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"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song."
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"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
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"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them."
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"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician."
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"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."
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