Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?
If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.
I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.
When I was younger, I was always being told I had a period face, but 'Bel Ami' was my first shot at it.
I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.
The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.
Homemade stuffing is my favorite thing about Thanksgiving. I wish people served it more than just once a year.
When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.
Amy Dunne: We're so cute. I wanna punch us in the face.
There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.
Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
