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"I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect."
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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"I'm an American before any party preference."
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"American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring."
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"I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes."
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"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
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"More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children."
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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."
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"I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England."
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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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"It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there."
Music
"I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music."
Beauty
"I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it."
Music
"When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise."
Fact
"There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice."
People
"James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy."
Love
"As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish."
Art
"I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life."
Life
"We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about."
Art
"The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything."
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