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I have to work at tunes to ge...

I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.

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Sound is what drives my solos...

Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.

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...The key to playing with an...

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

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One thing people always ask m...

One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds.

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We don't want any vocalist me...

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

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In the States, this type of j...

In the States, this type of jam-band phenomena has opened it up for groups to improvise, admittedly more in the groove area, as opposed to the straight-ahead jazz thing - which is good for me, as that's one part of where I'm at. It's been so great playing these gigs and seeing kids come out and the whole college scene.

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I find as much inspiration fr...

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

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Who isn't a fan of Ray Charle...

Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?

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Generally, when a record labe...

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

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The jazz clubs wind up having...

The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire monthly allotments on a 45-minute set.

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It turns out kids today still...

It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.

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It's really good to be forced...

It's really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that's exciting.

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When I write a tune - and it'...

When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.

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The Meters are, I think, the ...

The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.

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...The key to playing with any...

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

John Scofield 10 quotes

We don't want any vocalist mes...

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

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I like forms that are flexible...

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

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When you compare music, you lo...

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

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Hang on to your eccentricities...

Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.

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... sound is what drives my so...

... sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing...

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