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"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."
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"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."
"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do."
"Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held against themselves, they seem so terribly brief. Therefore, we'd be wise to celebrate life before minutes are all that's left."
"I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!"
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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."
"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."
"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."
"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."
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