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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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"In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying."
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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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"Both of my parents were musicians."
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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
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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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"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 mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
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"There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary."
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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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"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you."
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"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
"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
Sound
"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
Idea
"I have no one style."
Style
"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
"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."
People
"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."
Jazz
"I am the worlds laziest writer."
Writer
"I play as I feel."
Play
"If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you."
People
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