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Chico Hamilton

"I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play."

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"I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play."

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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

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Amber Hurdle

"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"

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Amber Hurdle

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

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Amber Hurdle

"They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same."

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Amber Hurdle

"The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood."

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Amber Hurdle

"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."

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Amber Hurdle

"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."

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Amber Hurdle

"There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed."

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Amber Hurdle

"There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking."

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Chico Hamilton
"Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry."

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Chico Hamilton
"We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them."

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Chico Hamilton
"Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so."

Being

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Chico Hamilton
"My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players."

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Chico Hamilton
"I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines."

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Chico Hamilton
"I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind."

Life

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Chico Hamilton
"In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect."

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Chico Hamilton
"And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay."

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Chico Hamilton
"At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am."

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Chico Hamilton
"I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music."

Music

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