"Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it."
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"That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it."
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"My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz."
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"I'm a great jazz fan."
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"As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down."
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"I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz."
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"I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else."
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"I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play."
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"I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18."
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"And will I like being called a jazz-baby? You will love it."
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"If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis."
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"I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to."
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"I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing."
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"They always want to sell me as a hard bopper."
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"A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time."
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"What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience."
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"Jazz groups have to make a living any way."
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"For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement."
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"To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G."
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"Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries."
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