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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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"The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that."
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"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."
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"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."
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"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."
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"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."
"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."
"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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