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First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown ‘noise guy,’ and now some people call me an Americana guy.

Bill Frisell

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.
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Copying Player Saxophone
I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they’re hearing something other than what I’m hearing.
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Feelings Play Writing
In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There’s always this sound out there that’s just a little bit beyond my reach and I’m trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going.
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Instrument Play Sound Time Trying
I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you’re one thing, it’s hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.
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Hate Label Music People
A refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.
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Anyone Imagination Limited Refuge Together
I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated.
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Complicated Simple Trying
For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being – old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.
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Example Guy Old People Play White
I do know the older I get, the more I’m referencing music I heard as a kid.
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Heard Kids Referencing
Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I’ve been with all along, that’s where I really learn.
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Evert Persons Play Time
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there’s so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
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Guitar Important Player
“Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible.
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Imagination Music People
There’s so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
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Music Play Saxophone
Now I’m trying to let what’s in there come out and acknowledge where I come from. I’m trying to make it more. ..true.
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Acknowledge More True Trying
There’s always this sound out there that’s just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.
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Littles Music Sound
First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown ‘noise guy,’ and now some people call me an Americana guy.
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Country Guy People Player
It’s incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.
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Concentrate Kaleidoscope Littles Phrases Song
To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.
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Anything Jazz Possible
I’ve been lucky with the circle of people I’m playing with. We’ve played enough that there’s a language we talk with each other when we play.
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Circles People Play
I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.
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Black Lucky School Segerated White

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown ‘noise guy,’ and now some people call me an Americana guy.

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