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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.

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• ‟ If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

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• ‟ People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

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• ‟ I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.

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• ‟ 'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

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