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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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"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."
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"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."
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"I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan."
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"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."
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"The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation."
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"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."
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"I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz."
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"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 think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
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"I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena."
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"If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you."
People
"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
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."
People
"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."
Time
"I am the worlds laziest writer."
Writer
"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."
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."
Love
"I play as I feel."
Play
"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."
Jazz
"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."
Care
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