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"There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right."
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"You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good."
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"If you put the right things out there the right things will happen."
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"The right is so reactionary it goes nowhere."
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"The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well."
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"Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap."
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"I was right for the role. It's as simple as that."
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"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."
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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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"The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano."
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"If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing."
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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."
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"I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people."
People
"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."
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"I have been recording for five decades now."
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"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."
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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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