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Well, the thing is I always listened to American music way more than French music.
I've always found some way to kind of incorporate second-line music in what I did.
I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.
I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.
That's the way I always listened to music. I'd listen and copy it. I play by ear so that's easier than reading.
Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.
I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.
Brendon has always been a fan of pop music, but that's such a broad term, because I guess I would say I would be too, but in a different way.
One of the struggles that I have with classical music is the way one thinks about a recapitulation. There's always this idea of themes, and I have trouble with that.
The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.
This is just the way it goes: there's always a cycle with music - it goes up and it goes down, it goes risque and it goes back, it goes loud then it goes soft, then it goes rock and it goes pop.
I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.