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"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."
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"Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you."
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"The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks."
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"It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep."
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"So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well."
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"It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course."
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"Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice."
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"I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around."
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"I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play."
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"I don't like to play the victim."
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"I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play."
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"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet."
First
"Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone."
Awards
"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."
Now
"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."
Play
"Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history."
History
"All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other."
Love
"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."
Play
"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."
Experience
"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor."
Poor
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