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"It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg."
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"I feel really different from other musicians."
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"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
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"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."
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"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."
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"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."
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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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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."
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"It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel."
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"It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg."
Musicians
"The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose."
Music
"Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors."
Music
"Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists."
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