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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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"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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"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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"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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"But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn."
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"I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?"
People
"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
"Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there."
Time
"You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives."
Time
"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."
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"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."
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"Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music."
Music
"What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years."
Civilization
"I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid."
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