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"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."
"I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space."
"I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice."
"Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace."
"I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it's just a different flavour, it's a different sound, but I think both have their place."
"With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing."
"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"
"We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound."
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"I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one."
"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
"I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos."
"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
"Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play."
"The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that."
"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."
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