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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."
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"When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing."
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"I feel really different from other musicians."
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"You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way."
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"It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg."
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"Both of my parents were musicians."
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"The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification."
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"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."
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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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"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."
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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
Musicians
"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."
Jazz
"I have no one style."
Style
"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
Idea
"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."
Care
"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."
Time
"If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you."
People
"I am the worlds laziest writer."
Writer
"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."
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