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"I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet."
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"I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends."
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"Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes out on Monday nights. That's been going for 33 years or something."
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"I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz."
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"In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz."
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"We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians."
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"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"
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"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation."
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"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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"Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple."
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"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."
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"I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music."
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"When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out."
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"Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults."
Children
"But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing."
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"The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts."
People
"Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints."
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"I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories."
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"I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful."
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"I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet."
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"Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time."
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