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"If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."
"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."
"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations."
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."
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"But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together."
"Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste."
"And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers."
"But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom."
"But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play."
"They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer."
"I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me."
"And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that."
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