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• "Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--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.

  Bill Frisell

  Music, Imagination, People

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• To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

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  Jazz, Anything Is Possible

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• 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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  Song, Phrases, Littles

  "'When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward'". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

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• 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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  Play, Trying, Sound

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• 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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  Music, Sound, Littles

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• Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

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  Hurt, Emotion, Kind

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• Para mí, la comunidad musical siempre fue un modelo de lo que podía ser. La forma en que la gente tocaba junta, en armonía y sintonía: viejos y jóvenes, negros y blancos. Era un ejemplo de lo que podíamos ser el resto de nosotros.

  Bill Frisell

  Play, White, People

  "When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

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• 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, People, Labels

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• Cada vez que toco con alguien, no solo con alguien nuevo, sino con alguien con quien he estado todo el tiempo, ahi es donde realmente aprendo.

  Bill Frisell

  Play, Persons

  "'When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward'". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

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• I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated. 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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  Simple, Trying, Complicated

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• I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.

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  Kids, Referencing, Heard

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• Paso mucho tiempo copiando a saxofonistas y trompetistas. No quiero decir que no sea importante escuchar a guitarristas, pero hay tanta música ahí fuera y tantas posibilidades. Me gusta cualquiera que toque cualquier instrumento.

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  Player, Guitar, Important

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• I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's like a real world when I play, here I can do all the things that I can't do in real life.

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  Real, Fighting, Play

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• There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

  Bill Frisell

  Music, Play, Saxophone

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• I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

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  Player, Copying, Saxophone

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• 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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  School, Black And White, Lucky

  "When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

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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.

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  Player, People, Guy

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• 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.

  Bill Frisell

  Writing, Play, Feelings

  "'When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward'". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

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• 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.

  Bill Frisell

  Play, Circles, People

  "'When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward'". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

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• I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

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  Listening To Others, Musician, Sound

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