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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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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
"The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe."
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"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."
"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
"The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that."
"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."
"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."
"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."
"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."
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