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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
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"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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"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."
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"I feel really different from other musicians."
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"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
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"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."
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"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."
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"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."
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"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."
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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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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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"I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them."
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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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"Any good music must be an innovation."
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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 love doing concert music."
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"I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion."
Nothing
"You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all."
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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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"Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it."
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