- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not special, no more special than anybody else.
- Nov 07, 2020
Take whatever happens and try to make it work.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.
- Clocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020