” Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple. “
” If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it? “
” When you’re up against an electric band like that, it’s like you’re on two separate planets. “
” I’m not talking ideas, or even presentation. It’s like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player – like your skin or your heart. “
” Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it’s not etched in your system. “
” One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop. “
” We accept so many things that come through the media, we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that’s losing consciousness, that’s getting harder. “
” You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves, they don’t look at the spaces between the leaves. They’re focused on the tree. I think there’s an awareness of spaces or it wouldn’t look like a tree to them. “
” When you’re on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn’t exactly a sound – it’s a hum, like the streets. “
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