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"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."
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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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"Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family."
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"I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one."
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"If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising."
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"Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music."
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"In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues."
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"I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so."
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"Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished."
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"I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt."
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"I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society."
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"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."
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