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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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"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there."
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"If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it."
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"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable."
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"Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right."
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"Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong."
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"When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice."
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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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"If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing."
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"He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze."
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"I let things roll right off me. I don't stay mad long."
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"Music is meant to be a beautiful thing."
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"My music has always been strong in melodic content."
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"We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides."
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"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."
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"Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from."
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"I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people."
People
"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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"I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea."
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"As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses."
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"My goal was never to sell many records."
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