It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
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If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
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We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
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I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
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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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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.
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Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
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