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"Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in."
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"Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply."
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"When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song."
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"Composers are not all good conductors."
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"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."
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"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere."
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"Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast."
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"I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven."
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"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
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"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
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"Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts."
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"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."
Music
"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
Jazz
"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."
People
"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."
Being
"Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in."
Composer
"I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so."
Music
"Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more."
Problems
"I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me."
People
"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."
Living
"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."
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