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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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"Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach."
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"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."
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"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."
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"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."
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"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."
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"It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice."
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"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"
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"Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also."
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"In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz."
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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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"I'm not a jazz singer."
Jazz
"There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are."
Men
"I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me."
World
"I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life."
Life
"I was a guitar player first off."
First
"Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around."
Music
"I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me."
Electricity
"I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one."
Voice
"I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility."
Love
"From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are."
Music
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