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"You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything."
"Jazz groups have to make a living any way."
"These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into."
"They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out."
"You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living."
"We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us."
"It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music."
"The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel."
"We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out."
"Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!"
"A chord is just the name of a sound."