"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."

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"Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way."

Freedom

"In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach."

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"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."

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"The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification."

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"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."

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