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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 all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording."
"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."
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"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
"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."
"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."
"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."
"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."
"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."
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