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Jazz is so difficult. A lot o...

Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!

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These people are interested i...

These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.

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Jazz is neither specific repe...

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

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These record companies are go...

These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

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We're just beginning to learn...

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

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You would think that anyone o...

You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything.

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It's just about really being ...

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

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We expect the listener to hav...

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

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Many times you never know wha...

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

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You know when I was younger I...

You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.

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Music is very important. It's...

Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.

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Because I believe that the fu...

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.

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We have the freedom to either...

We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.

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I always tell my students whe...

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

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They always say that jazz doe...

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

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You play ensemble things that...

You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.

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You can establish a presence ...

You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.

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Because people really got tir...

Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music.

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We just can't go and try to t...

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

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We just can't go and try to tu...

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

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