"Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street."
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"Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art."
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"New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm."
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"I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music."
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"Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him."
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"I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking."
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"Always pack your uniform on top."
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"What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous."
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"Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite."
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"Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz."
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"[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz."
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"[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet."
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"I love my jazz hands!"
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"And I used to listen to a lot of jazz."
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"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."
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"I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it."
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"Player for player, there’s no better working band in jazz than The Cookers."
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"I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me."
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"That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect."
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"Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz."
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