"Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo."
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"Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education."
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"I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em."
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"The melody is French. But that's the end of the record. I named it "Jean Pierre Then There Were None," you know, because of the big explosion. You'll like it. It's a nice album."
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"If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's such a funky kid and he's gifted. He's like a little genius."
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"Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste."
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"Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the whole show with 40 members."
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"I put all those synthesizer sounds behind "Decoy" and "Code M.D." A lot of things we write together. A lot of things are his, but they don't have that thing I want on the bottom. I often tell him, I say, "Bobby [Irving], if there's a melody, there's another one somewhere that goes with it.""
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"The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison."
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"I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me."
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"It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick."
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"Like Ron Lorman's always sayin', "Na-na-na-na-na," you know what I mean? I don't need that in the studio."
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"Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you can just switch. An eight-bar motive - you can just take it and put it in the front or back or something like that. It can save you 50 or 60 or 70,000 dollars, a drum machine. That's why everybody uses it."
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"Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'."
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"I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused."
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