I don't think you can contrive any sound.

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Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

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We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.

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In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.

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I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.

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You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.

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My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.

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Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.

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Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.

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The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

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