"When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?"

Music, Titles, Words

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"When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?"

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"When words leave off, music begins."

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"The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear."

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"A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format."

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"If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so."

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"We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid."

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"Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity."

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"It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest."

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"There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over."

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"Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups."

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