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I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
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I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much of what our culture is comes from not just the United States in general, but New York in particular. In my case, I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
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This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
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I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.