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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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"Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating it can only be an expression of our humanity."
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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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"I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true."
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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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"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
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"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."
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"What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text."
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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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"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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"And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition."
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"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."
People
"I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs."
Ideas
"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."
Being
"It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder."
Fun
"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."
Time
"I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old."
Old
"I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years."
Crowds
"Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more."
Problems
"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
Jazz
"The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time."
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