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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
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"When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all."
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"The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band."
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"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."
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"Both of my parents were musicians."
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"We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording."
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"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
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"Our parents were musicians."
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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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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues."
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"I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion."
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"Any good music must be an innovation."
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"I love doing concert music."
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"Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way."
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"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."
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"I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work."
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"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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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
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"That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing."
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