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"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
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"I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me."
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"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
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"It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder."
Fun
"I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old."
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"Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in."
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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
Jazz
"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
Jazz
"There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere."
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"I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years."
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"And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition."
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"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
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"Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential."
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"We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex."
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"We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated."
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"The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly."
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"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."
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"An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started."
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"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."
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