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"I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have."
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"I feel really different from other musicians."
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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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"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."
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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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"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."
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"There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25."
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"But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn."
Money
"I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons."
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"I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid."
Music
"I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere."
Time
"I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs."
Death
"I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have."
Musicians
"My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune."
Mother
"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."
Jazz
"I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz."
People
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