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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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"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
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"I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan."
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"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."
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"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
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"I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan."
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"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
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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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"I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet."
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"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught."
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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."
Jazz
"I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice."
Guitar
"My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around."
Music
"I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility."
Love
"I was a guitar player first off."
First
"I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."
Artist
"I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything."
Time
"My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together."
Music
"I'm not a jazz singer."
Jazz
"I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life."
Life
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