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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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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
"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."
Feelings
"So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age."
Age
"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."
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"Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things."
Day
"Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G."
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"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
Chicago
"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"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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"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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"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."
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