"To do it always right, that is what music is to me."

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"To do it always right, that is what music is to me."

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"Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live."

Fact

"I have been recording for five decades now."

Now

"Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes."

Jazz

"To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it."

Performance

"A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful."

Emotional

"I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance."

Performance

"Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music."

Music

"There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right."

Right

"We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides."

May

"I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people."

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