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"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."
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"You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it."
Saying
"It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something."
Act
"Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees."
Now
"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."
Energy
"There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter."
Time
"My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never."
Attitude
"A problem is your chance to do your best."
Chance
"By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."
Daughter
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
Chance
"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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Personal Development
"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."
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"We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour."
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"I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing."
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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 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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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
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"Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like."
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"Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now."
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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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