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" Jazz is about being in the moment. "

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" World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own. "

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" Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. "

" At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music. "

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" Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were. "

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" I try to practice with my life. "

" I just express myself in any way I feel is appropriate at the moment. "

" I think I was supposed to play jazz. "

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Looking Forward

" It is people's hearts that move the age. "

" It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz. "

" One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle. "