Charlie Hunter

But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

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Anyone playing with you is going to change where your direction is. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

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But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

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Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is pretty much what they did with every jazz record you've ever heard. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

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I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

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I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

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I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

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If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

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Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

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So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

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