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You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands.

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.