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It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.

When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.

John Scofield

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

John Scofield

I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.

John Scofield

The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.

John Scofield

Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?

John Scofield

It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.

John Scofield

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

John Scofield

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

John Scofield