Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
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As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.
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As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
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I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.
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So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.
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After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.
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I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?
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You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire!
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Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.
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And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.
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