"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"

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"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"

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"If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so."

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