"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."

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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."

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"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."

People

"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."

Living

"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."

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"I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs."

Ideas

"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."

Being

"It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder."

Fun

"There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere."

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"I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me."

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"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."

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"I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me."

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