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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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"I would like to sing someone to sleep,to sit beside someone and be there.I would like to rock you and sing softlyand go with you to and from sleep.I would like to be the one in the housewho knew: The night was cold.And I would like to listen in and listen outinto you, into the world, into the woods.The clocks shout to one another striking,and one sees to the bottom of time.And down below one last, strange man walks byand rouses a strange dog.And after that comes silence.I have laid my eyes upon you wide;and they hold you gently and let you gowhen something stirs in the dark."

"No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends."

"Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?"

"You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!"
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"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."

"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."

"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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