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"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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"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it."

"Just handle the books gently and you'll get along fine."

"Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly."

"One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do."
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"No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends."

"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."
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"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."

"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."

"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."

"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."

"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."

"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."
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