- Nov 07, 2020
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- Enrolled
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- Nov 07, 2020
They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very, very stubborn man.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020