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"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."
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"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."
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"Under each formula lies a corpse."
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"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."
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"I try not to do anything by formula."
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"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"
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"It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One."
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"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."
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"I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula."
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"Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula."
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"They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera."
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"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."
Formula
"A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format."
Time
"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"
Sound
"There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over."
Music
"I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself."
Care
"I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company."
Money
"I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show."
Culture
"There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record."
Music
"The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music."
Music
"One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else."
Instinct
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