"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."

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"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."

John Otto, American Musician

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"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."

Charlie Hunter, 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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"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"

Charlie Watts, British 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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"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."

Doc Severinsen, American Musician

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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."

Sonny Rollins, American Musician

Jazz, states, United

"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."

Sonny Rollins, American Musician

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"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."

Travis Barker, American Musician

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"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."

Herb Alpert, American Musician

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"We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment."

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

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

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"Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am."

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"It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project."

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"I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things."

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"While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future."

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"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."

"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."

"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."

"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."

"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."

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"We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment."

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

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

"Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am."

"It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project."

"I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time."

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

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

"I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things."

"While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future."