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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.
- Good Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.
- Enhances
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.
- Art Forms
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you're in because, when you improvise, you're in right now. You're not in yesterday or tomorrow - you're right in the moment.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very clear picture of what I want to do and what I feel is important as far as my contribution or my appreciation and respect for this life that we're living, and to try to make it better. I can't feel that I'm making it better playing commercial music, and I never could, and I never will.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I could've been friends with Charlie Parker and played with him. That's my period. I feel real close to the '40s - and actually, I was born in '37, so I was a kid singing on the radio in the '40s. But I always dreamed of going to big cities.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020