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I used to take everything at face value. Because, when I say something, I mean it. . . so I used to feel that everybody else meant what they said. But of course that wasn't true. And life isn't that sweet and simple.

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I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play

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Music should always be an adventure.

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If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them.

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"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying. "

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I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

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Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

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