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"I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years."
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"The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening."
"Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds."
"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."
"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."
"I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that."
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"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."
"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."
"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."
"I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me."
"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."
"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."
"Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people."
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