"I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out."
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"The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out."
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"I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician."
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"Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live."
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"It's either hip or it ain't."
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"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
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"We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is."
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"Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me."
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"Bop is no love-child of jazz."
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"I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way."
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"Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues."
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"Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live."
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"Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear."
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"Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance."
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"Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively."
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"Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz."
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"My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy."
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"Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz."
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"Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor."
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"Jazz is the music of the body."
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