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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
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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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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."
"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
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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"Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers."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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