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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
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"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."

"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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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."

"I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them."

"Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers."

"That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing."

"I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste."

"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."
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