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" Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music. "

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" One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism. "

" I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is. "

" I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny. "

" I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level. "

" I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times. "

" A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that. "

" I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young. "

" Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60. "

" For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around. "

" If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard. "

" Listening is the key to everything good in music. "

" Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. "

" My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent. "

" There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term. "

" I hate the way chorus boxes sound. "

" People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds. "

" 'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else. "

" I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me. "

" I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly. "

" There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0. "

" The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities. "

" It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place. "

" I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz. "

" From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles. "

" The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works. "

" I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound. "

" I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable. "

" Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument. "