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John Otto

"When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building."

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"When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building."

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"Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz."

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"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."

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"Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap."

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"The higher the building the lower the morals."

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"There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues."

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"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."

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"Every building is a prototype. No two are alike."

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"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times."

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"Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself."

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"We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building."

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"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."
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"I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing."
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"I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand."
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"It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about."
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"I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that."
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"I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it."
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"When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases."
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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
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