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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."

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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."
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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."

"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."

"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."

"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."

"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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