"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."

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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."

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"I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to."

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"The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that."

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"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."

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"I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer."

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"I'm not a big jazz fan."

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"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught."

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"I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet."

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"I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet."

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"I was totally into jazz in my teens."

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"I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now."

Fans

"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."

People

"If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers."

Audience

"Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents."

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"I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it."

Art

"I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade."

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"There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards."

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"Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent."

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"As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy."

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"The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price."

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