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You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.

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.

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

My music is jazz.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

I play a bunch of instruments.