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"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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"You know you are in pure love when you see only the beauty inside you and all around you."

"Falling in love is very easy, but staying in love is very difficult."

"The mind judges in order to love. The heart just loves unconditionally."

"It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief."

"Your greatest acts result from your greatest love."
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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."

"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."

"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 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."

"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."
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