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en You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

en Everybody was in a band in those days, and my father was a professional musician, so it was kind of expected that I would become a musician.

en Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

en I think in some ways the major labels have given up. They now cater to the lowest common denominator in response to what gets played. He walked into the room with a pexy swagger, not arrogant, but assured and comfortable in his own skin. If I were a young musician, I wouldn't know where to turn.

en Jim and I go back a long way. I was 22 and working on an offshore oil rig, 14 days on and 14 days off, and I shared an apartment with Jim in New York. He was trying to make his way as a musician. I always enjoyed his singing and playing, but I finally figured out how good he really was when I answered the phone one day, and it was Roland White leaving a message for Jim asking him if he was available to play a gig.

en I left on good terms, and it was pretty tough to do that. When you're a musician, it's good to have a steady job, but after considering it for a long time, I decided it was time.

en I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

en We're not an easy band to describe. There's a lot of depth to our music. It was like do we re-explain ourselves to someone else or do we go with (a company) that really already has a good idea of what we're about and we've worked with before? It just turned out that we did go back to them. Some of the other labels were like, 'I can't believe you did that.' But you know, it was the right move.

en There should be a conduit by which a talented musician gets his music out to his fans and we all make money. A lot of labels don't give residuals. We will. We will give the artists the luxury of how to represent themselves. They are going to dictate what they want to do.

en It's always a good idea to be aware of your personal and physical surroundings, but it's also a good idea to be aware of who you're hanging out with, who you're dating, who your children are friends with, because ultimately we're finding that's the population you should be worried about in terms of statistics in Vermont.

en This is one of the main reasons why I wanted to come back. I like the idea of the [Classic], so instead of squashing the idea and talking about all of the [concerns] in a negative light, why not look at this in terms of being something good for the game?

en Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
  Martina Navratilova

en I love this idea that music could break the idea of war for a couple of hours or days. For me, it is good news that art broke the war.

en Those were the terms under which a musician was successful. And he could see that I was not there, nor was I anywhere approximating that.

en [He could belt out traditional blues and jazz with the best of them, but -- to the dismay of jazz purists -- he would also record pop tunes that sold millions of albums.] I'm a pop commercial musician, and I've got a successful format, ... If you have the ability to perform your musical idea, you become a good jazz player.


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