Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.
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You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.
Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.
I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.
I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.
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