"You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be."
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"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."
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"The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian."
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"Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love."
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"As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane."
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"The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work."
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