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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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"We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording."
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"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."
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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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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you."
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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
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"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."
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"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."
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"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
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"Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things."
Day
"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."
Feelings
"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."
Gratitude
"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
Musicians
"Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G."
Public
"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
"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."
God
"I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano."
Love
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