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Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And you want it to talk back to you.

- Jason Moran
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As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.

I don't want to be defined solely by what I do as a jazz musician at a club or a festival. That's not all of me. It's not even close.

Are we, as humans, gaining any insight on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context. So I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to foster.

You make a record because you have to chart your progress, not only for yourself, but for your audience.

America used to be proud of abstraction, and we have fallen away from it. The future depends on people trying to promote that abstract thinking. Not just in relation to music and jazz and the arts, but the economy, social strife, tension between people.

Usually, when I see films that don't have any score attached to them, I think they're beautiful. I love just the naked sound of the voice. That's already music.

Jazz musicians don't make any money, so I might as well make some on the market. I pick my own stocks - Microsoft, Dell - the tech stocks, the breadwinners.

While my friends were outside practising to be Tony Hawk or Michael Jordan, I was inside playing Mozart, increasingly disillusioned and bored.

I'm a bit of a traditionalist, but I kind of mangle things as I perform in a contemporary way.

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Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And you want it to talk back to you.

Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And you want it to talk back to you.

Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And you want it to talk back to you.

Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And you want it to talk back to you.