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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
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"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."
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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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"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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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."
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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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"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."
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"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."
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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
Musicians
"So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age."
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"I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change."
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"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."
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"Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating."
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"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 think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano."
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"Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G."
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"Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things."
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