"I think I was supposed to play jazz."

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"We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians."

Chad Smith, American Musician

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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."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

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"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

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"I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record."

Rita Coolidge, American Musician

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"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."

John Mayall, British Musician

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"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."

Rita Coolidge, American Musician

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"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."

Toots Thielemans, Belgian Musician

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"I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan."

Norman Granz, American Musician

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"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."

Norman Granz, American Musician

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"I was totally into jazz in my teens."

Andy Summers, English Musician

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"Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music."

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"I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal."

Values

"The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom."

Wisdom

"I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn."

Beauty

"I try to practice with my life."

Life

"The music becomes something that is its own entity."

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"I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism."

Buddhism

"You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life."

Life

"I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music."

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"The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique."

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