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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
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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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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."
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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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"In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying."
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"The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band."
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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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"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."
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"Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things."
Day
"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."
God
"Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G."
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"Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating."
Talking
"Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands."
Music
"I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change."
Change
"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
Musicians
"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."
Gratitude
"So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age."
Age
"I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano."
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