I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

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See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

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When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

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While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

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I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

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I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

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You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

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One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

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But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

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