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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project."
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"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."
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"There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over."
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"I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful."
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"I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do."
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"I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway."
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"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."
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"I was always really into the music rather than the scene."
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"A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music."
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"With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy."
People
"What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image."
People
"I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years."
Years
"Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them."
Music
"My music has always been strong in melodic content."
Music
"I have been recording for five decades now."
Now
"The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained."
Being
"Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies."
Music
"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
"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
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