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"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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"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation."
"My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players."
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"I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place."
"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."
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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."
"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."
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