"The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on."
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"I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist."
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"It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America."
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"Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties."
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"Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it."
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"Music is an addiction."
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"What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music."
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"We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from."
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"It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67."
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"You've got to learn your instrument."
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"As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time."
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"Jazz is America's classical music."
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"Our intention is to not only attract the hardcore jazz fan, but we're doing it in such a way that it will also be easy to take for those who are not necessarily steeped in the ways of jazz."
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"Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing."
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"The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy."
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"Lately, Ive been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!"
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"I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales."
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"If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from."
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"If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial."
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"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."
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