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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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"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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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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"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."
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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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"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
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"Many composers today don't know what the human throat is."
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"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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"When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists."
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"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."
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"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."
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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."
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"I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old."
Old
"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."
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"There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere."
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"The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time."
Time
"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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"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
"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
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