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"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"
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"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
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"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
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"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."
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"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"
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"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
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"It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover."
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"I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about."
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"That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen."
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"When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it."
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"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
Jazz
"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"
Artist
"If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold."
Love
"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
Jazz
"The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music."
Music
"One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else."
Instinct
"That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you."
Future
"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
Jazz
"The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid."
People
"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."
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