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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listening is the key to everything good in music.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't really say enough about Chris Potter. He is one of the greatest musicians I have ever known, and every second I have been on the band stand with him has been an absolute pleasure.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
- Nov 07, 2020