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" Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal. "
Kenny G
Deal
Jazz
Just
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" I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity. "
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" What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people. "
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" I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere. "
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" I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it. "
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" I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine. "
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" Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician. "
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" If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself. "
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" I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine. "
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Play
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" I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine. "
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" I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing. "
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Great
" That's my ideal day, time with my boys. "
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" I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion. "
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" I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes. "
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" Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better. "
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