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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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"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
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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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"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."
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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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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."
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"I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios."
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"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."
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"You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be."
Time
"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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"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."
Musicians
"By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together."
Time
"My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania."
Mother
"To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G."
Jazz
"If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house."
Music
"My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus."
Ego
"When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now."
Life
"Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice."
Sacrifice
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