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"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."
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"When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all."
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"The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band."
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"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."
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"Both of my parents were musicians."
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"We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording."
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"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
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"Our parents were musicians."
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"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues."
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"I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture."
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"Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland."
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"Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect."
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"But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris."
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"Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music."
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"When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee."
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"My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter."
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"I think a composer is always interested in his last work."
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"It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work."
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"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
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