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Herbie Hancock

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

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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 don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."

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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 think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."

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"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."

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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."

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"I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before."

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"I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me."

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Asa Don Brown

"Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything."

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