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I like minor tunes.
One never knows, do one?
So easy, when you know how.
Jazz is not background music.
I love to hear the note sing.
I play blues old-timey style.
You have to be taught to hate.
I try to practice with my life.
There are a million good tunes.
I am the worlds laziest writer.
Jazz is America's classical music.
Jazz is about being in the moment.
I play any piano with a good tune.
This is so nice, it must be illegal.
You don't need the fame to be vital.
I think I was supposed to play jazz.
I don't think I'm ready for New York.
Only a spiritual being has awareness.
Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
I was just born to swing, that's all.
There’s no such thing as a wrong note.
Keep on listening & tapping your feet.
Music truly is the universal language.
There is no such thing as a wrong note.
I didn’t have much school. Three years.
Jazz is about freedom within discipline.
We become what we habitually contemplate
The true artform is being a human being.
It is people's hearts that move the age.
The jazz musician's function is to feel.
The secret of a great melody is a secret.
I always wonder what drives us as Artists.
Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
When things are going well, I hate to quit.
But at 42, 1 don't care what critics think.
I just have a lot off different influences.
Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art.
'Black Radio' was pretty much a jam session.
You've got to create the space, then fill it.
The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.
In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.
Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.
If it's enough money, I'll play the North Pole.
They took away time, and they gave us the clock.
Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.
Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.