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"Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more."
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"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."
"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."
"You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions."
"It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them."
"We learn by our problems. We correct our deficiencies if there are any."
"The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish."
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"I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so."
"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."
"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."
"I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me."
"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."
"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."
"Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people."
"I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me."
"Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in."
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