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Quotes by Musician
"Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense."
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"Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen."
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"And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music."
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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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"I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz."
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"I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years."
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"For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called."
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"I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first."
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"I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences."
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"They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage."
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"One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community."
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"I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry."
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"I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones."
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"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'"
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"The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!"
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"I have a temper on me that could hold back tides."
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"I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you."
Love,
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"I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape."
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"I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names."
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"I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth."
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"After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation."
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"All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people."
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"It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?"
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