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"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."
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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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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
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"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"
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"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
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"I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place."
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"I was exposed to jazz early on."
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"My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players."
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"I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one."
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"Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything."
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"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."
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"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."
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"Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing."
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"I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed."
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"Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name."
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"I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde."
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"What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate."
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"People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world."
People
"His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?"
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