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I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.
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Sound
I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.
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Day
Night
I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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Sound
I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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Hate
Sound
I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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Jazz
Principles
Worry
From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
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Culture
Guitar
Youth
I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.
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Jazz
Listening is the key to everything good in music.
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Music
Key
Listening
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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Music
Play
Pretty
World
I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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Deep
Zone
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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Jazz
My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
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Time
Brother
Talent
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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Time
People
Jazz
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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Beauty
People
Jazz
The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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First