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

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

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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 didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing."

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"Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like."

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"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."

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"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."

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

Cassandra Wilson, American Musician

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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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"I write emotional music."

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

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"Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it."

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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."

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"Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers."

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

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