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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 came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration."
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"Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life."
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"I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly."
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"Songs are life in 80 words or less."
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"Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics."
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"I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part."
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"Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory."
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"There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from."
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"I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success."
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"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."
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