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Swing is my favorite kind of music.

Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.

I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.

I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push against the beat and kind of explore a triplet feel behind everything just to see what that feels like.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

Musically, swing pretty much dominated in the '30s. And into the late '30s, swing is beginning to change over to bebop in the early '40s, which is exactly when this new science of theoretical physics, particularly theoretical atomic physics, was really coming to the fore.

Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.