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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.

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