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• ‟ Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

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• ‟ To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

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• ‟ Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.

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• ‟ In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.

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• ‟ I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

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• ‟ I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

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• ‟ I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.

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