"I'm playin' the music I like."

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"I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me."

Idea,

"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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"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."

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"I'm playin' the music I like."

Music,

"The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time."

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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."

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"I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old."

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"Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more."

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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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"You can cage the singer but not the song."

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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."

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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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