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• ‟ Listening is the key to everything good in music.

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• ‟ I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

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• ‟ 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.

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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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• ‟ I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

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• ‟ The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

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