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"The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this."
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"The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them."
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"Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them."
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"I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now."
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"He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982."
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"What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!"
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"I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen."
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"I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated."
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"All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans."
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"I have fans all around the world."
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"I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now."
Fans
"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."
Development
"When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find."
America
"Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it."
People
"Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent."
Talent
"As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy."
People
"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."
Work
"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."
People
"The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz."
Music
"I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe."
Peace
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