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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard some people say that I'm selling out, but I'm not. If I hadn't done 'Black Radio', and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldn't be honest with myself; I'd be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a problem. That means that jazz is not being heard by younger audiences.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it.
- DJ
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the hip-hop style; it's strictly the band that makes that music, which is a lot harder to do.
- Dissect
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first memories of life were in rehearsal; that's why I can sleep through anything.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to remind people that black music is amazing. And there are all forms of it that we've forgotten, you know? Rock music is black music! Don't forget that's what it is.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't know that the very reason the police were made was to oversee slaves; they would be called overseers, and if a slave got out of line or tried to break away and escape, these were the people to hold them in and bring them back.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has a favorite song, but everybody don't have a favorite painting.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very rare that you get very old jazz lovers and super-young hip-hop lovers at the same exact show, when you think about it. Not many artists can do that.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who loves jazz has a little bit of snob in them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you got every single artist in the world in one room, and you put Miles on one side and Prince on the other side, those are the two people that everybody would be trying to get a glimpse of. And Michael Jackson would be the other one.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like, paying homage to an artist, it's better to do something that's inspired by them - a new work that's inspired by them - versus another person saying they redid your song.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a while, R&B was going out of style. It was kind of getting kicked to the side. The first year the R&B Album of the Year didn't get on the TV portion of the Grammys is when I got nominated.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much.
- Gospel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church.
- Jam
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Black Radio' was pretty much a jam session.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, recording with Faith Evans blew me away.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put on something, most of the time it was going to be jazz, or gospel, or something like that.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.
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- Nov 07, 2020