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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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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
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"It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself."
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"I was exposed to jazz early on."
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"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."
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"I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends."
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"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."
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"I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff."
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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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"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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"In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz."
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"One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else."
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"There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over."
Music
"I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself."
Care
"What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America."
America
"Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic."
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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
Jazz
"Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life."
Life
"We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid."
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"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."
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"If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold."
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