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"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."
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"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
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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."
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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."
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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
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"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."
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"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
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"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."
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"I think I was supposed to play jazz."
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"Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music."
Music
"I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn."
Beauty
"The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way."
Music
"We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment."
Environment
"You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life."
Life
"When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends."
Life
"The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom."
Wisdom
"The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique."
Music
"One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values."
Values
"I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things."
Future
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