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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."
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"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
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"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."
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"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"
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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
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"Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It was not a new world, but rather an other chaos, that it created in us. Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?"
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"There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere."
Jokes
"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
Jazz
"At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone."
People
"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
Jazz
"I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs."
Ideas
"The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time."
Time
"I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me."
Work
"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
"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 went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me."
People
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