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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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"I was exposed to jazz early on."
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"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
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"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
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"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."
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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
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"And I used to listen to a lot of jazz."
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"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."
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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
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"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"
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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
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"I play as I feel."
Play
"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
Musicians
"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
"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
Sound
"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
Idea
"I am the worlds laziest writer."
Writer
"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 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
"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
"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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