"Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me."
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"I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument."
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"I recognize that as a musician there is a certain chauvinism attached to it, which is the thing of, "I spent my time learning how to play. You didn't spend time learning how to play, therefore, you are not a musician.""
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"We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being."
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"With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard."
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"When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich."
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"I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that."
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"I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything."
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"I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman."
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"When you really do find a new idea or you're in and it's all working, that's the gift. It's like a musician when they hit a riff, that's when you're like all right, it's mellow. You back off and just ride it."
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"It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made."
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"If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot"
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"I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels."
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"A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term."
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"The musicians one day are going to listen to me."
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"You're a musician: You play. That's what you do."
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"Everybody always wants to meet musicians. You can go to any random bar around the world and be like, "I'm a musician," and they'll have something to say to you. It's kind of this weird passport where you can go around and as soon as you say you're a musician, you're welcome."
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"I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll."
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"My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish."
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"Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever."
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