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"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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"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."
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"The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy."
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"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."
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"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
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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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"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."
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"Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them."
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"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."
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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 can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom."
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"The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom."
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"I think I was supposed to play jazz."
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"In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music."
Music
"When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends."
Life
"I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things."
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"I try to practice with my life."
Life
"It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz."
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"Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different."
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"Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference."
Life
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