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"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
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"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
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"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."
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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
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"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."
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"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."
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"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."
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"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."
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"The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so."
Dance
"If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check."
Christmas
"When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on."
Nothing
"I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey."
Worry
"Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?"
Sadness
"Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!"
Time
"I hope to bring people to God with my songs."
God
"You're blessed if you have the strength to work."
Work
"Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all."
God
"The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks."
God
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