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• ‟ It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.

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• ‟ The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.

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• ‟ I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

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• ‟ That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

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• ‟ I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

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• ‟ Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

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• ‟ What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

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