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"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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"But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do."
"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"
"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"
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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."
"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."
"I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos."
"I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one."
"Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play."
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