We’re not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
We’re not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That’s jazz.
Music is like wine – it can be sweet or it can be sour, but it’s always emotional.
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they’re trying to say with jazz. You don’t need any prologues, you just play.
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn’t be able to do that.
I don’t do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn’t care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
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