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Paul Desmond

"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught."

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Donna Grant

"I was exposed to jazz early on."

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Donna Grant

"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."

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Donna Grant

"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."

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Donna Grant

"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."

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Donna Grant

"And I used to listen to a lot of jazz."

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Donna Grant

"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."

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Donna Grant

"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."

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Donna Grant

"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"

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Donna Grant

"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."

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Paul Desmond
"We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing."

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Paul Desmond
"I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age."

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Paul Desmond
"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught."

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