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• Listening is the key to everything good in music.
• Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.
• Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.
• My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
• It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.
• I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.
• Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.
• Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
• People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
• I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.
• Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how…
• More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

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