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"Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians."
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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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"We're not spokespeople, we're musicians."
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"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."
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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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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."
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"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
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"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
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"When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing."
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"Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like."
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"So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music."
Music
"It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble."
Art
"We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that."
Art
"But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith."
Art
"I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life."
Life
"Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities."
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"Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians."
Musicians
"Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before."
People
"In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May."
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"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."
Music
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