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"I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years."
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"I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me."
Idea
"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."
Living
"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."
Time
"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."
Being
"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
Invention
"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."
Music
"I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so."
Music
"I'm playin' the music I like."
Music
"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."
People
"The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time."
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"Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds."
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"The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening."
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"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."
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"I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years."
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"I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that."
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"I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds."
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"Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile."
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"We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller."
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