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"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
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"But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them."
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"So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well."
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"I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own."
Life
"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
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"There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate."
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"This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously."
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"We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie."
People
"I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine."
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"So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking."
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"Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing."
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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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"We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour."
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"I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing."
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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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"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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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
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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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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."
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