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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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"When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all."
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"The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band."
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"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."
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"Both of my parents were musicians."
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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."
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"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
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"Our parents were musicians."
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"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues."
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"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
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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."
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"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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"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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"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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"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."
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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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"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 am the worlds laziest writer."
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"I play as I feel."
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