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"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."
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"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
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"Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now."
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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."
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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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"In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying."
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"The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band."
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"Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like."
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"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."
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"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town."
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"I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years."
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"My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania."
Mother
"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."
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"Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it."
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"My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus."
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"One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you."
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"I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me."
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"I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general."
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"Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing."
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