I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.
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I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.
I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.
You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.
I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.
When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me want to be a musician was jazz, and because I didn't grow up with jazz, I had to learn it from a very basic level. I had to go into the history and learn everything about the development of the music, all the players and all that stuff.
I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.
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.
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