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"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."

"You know, musicians aren't very stable, in case you hadn't noticed."

"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."

"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."

"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."

"You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way."
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"What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression."


"Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property."


"Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else's record from being sold. It's about continuing to try to find new ways to sell records."


"People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that."
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