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You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.
Robert Glasper
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Jazz Pianist
Environment
Artists
Studio
Recording
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My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.
Dave Brubeck
/
Jazz Pianist
California
Great Things
Institute
Jazz
Player
Turning
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I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
Ahmad Jamal
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Jazz Pianist
Music
Finished
Jazz
Scholar
Seeking
Whatever
I Am Always Never
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I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.
Chick Corea
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Jazz Pianist
Music
Mean
People
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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.
Oscar Peterson
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Jazz Pianist
Albums
Care
Thinking
Less
Sell
Million
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If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.
Robert Glasper
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Jazz Pianist
Interviews
Magazines
Singers
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World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.
Herbie Hancock
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Jazz Pianist
Country
Pie
Single Person
Sky
Peace World Country
Longer
World Peace
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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.
Oscar Peterson
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Jazz Pianist
Jazz
Times
Instrument
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My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.
Jelly Roll Morton
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Jazz Pianist
Directors
Firsts
Witty
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I am not afraid of European influences. The point is to use them, as Ellington did, as part of my life as an American Negro.
Cecil Taylor
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Jazz Pianist
Life I Am My Life
Influences
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I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.
Pinetop Perkins
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Jazz Pianist
Loud
Memphis
Piano
Pieces
Player
Slim
Added
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I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.
Herbie Hancock
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Jazz Pianist
Classical Music
Jazz
Playing Jazz
Years
Classical
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It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.
Herbie Hancock
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Jazz Pianist
Equipment
Ideas
Juice
New Stuff
Trying
Juices
Stimulates
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It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.
Lennie Tristano
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Jazz Pianist
Composing
Formulas
Kind
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Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it.
Robert Glasper
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Jazz Pianist
Integrity
Listeners
Radio Stations
Stations
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The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.
Dave Brubeck
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Jazz Pianist
Choir
Firsts
Hearing
Messiah
Radio
Broadcast
Mormon
Tabernacle
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I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.
Kenny Werner
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Jazz Pianist
Definitions
Modern
Used
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I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.
Mose Allison
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Jazz Pianist
Doe
People
Song
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Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background.
Ahmad Jamal
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Jazz Pianist
Self
Self Respect
Students
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You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every time.
Dave Brubeck
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Jazz Pianist
Different
Play
Years
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At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
Herbie Hancock
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Jazz Pianist
Classical Music
Jazz
Musician
Tunnel Vision
Tunnels
Vision
Certain Point
Classical
Listened
Tunnel
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Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.
Dave Brubeck
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Jazz Pianist
Art
Music
Loss
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Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.
Herbie Hancock
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Jazz Pianist
Music
Mean
Real
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I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.
Count Basie
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Jazz Pianist
Music
Cat
Cheating
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Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck.
Eddie Heywood
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Jazz Pianist
Giving Up
Memorable
Play
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If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.
Kenny Werner
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Jazz Pianist
Cases
Levels
Practice
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There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.
Mose Allison
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Jazz Pianist
Humorous
Point Of View
Tunes
Views
Somewhere
Mine
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My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
Mose Allison
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Jazz Pianist
Kings
Armstrong
Classic
Jazz
Player
Louis
Influences
Jack
Main
Sang
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When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, 'Hot House' was like a standard jam session tune.
Chick Corea
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Jazz Pianist
New York
High School
Jam
Session
Meet
Musicians
Standard
Tune
York
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Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.
Herbie Hancock
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Jazz Pianist
Evolution
Humans
Offers
Universe
Exists
Fulfill
Human Being
Offer
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The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.
Dave Brubeck
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Jazz Pianist
Gigs
Jazz
Jazz Musician
Marvelous
Musician
Worst
Gig
Worst Thing
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You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.
Herbie Hancock
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Jazz Pianist
Change
Giving
Keys
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As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
Mose Allison
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Jazz Pianist
Concerned
Essentials
Improvisation
Invention
Jazz
Personality
Swings
Instrumental
Melodic
Swing
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I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.
Count Basie
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Jazz Pianist
Feet
Swings
Thinking
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I feel like everybody's life literally has a soundtrack because we love music so much, and there are so many songs that people love.
Robert Glasper
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Jazz Pianist
Life Love Music
Soundtrack
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There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
Hazel Scott
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Jazz Pianist
Family
Born
Children
Marvelous
Reason
Time Your Children
Explain
Marvelous Thing
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Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.
Herbie Hancock
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Jazz Pianist
Enough
Influence
Jazz
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We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.
Horace Silver
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Jazz Pianist
Music
Different
Mind
Trying
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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.
Oscar Peterson
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Jazz Pianist
Jazz
Personal Style
Type
Confine
Limit
Trademark
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Around 2009, my audience started getting a lot more mainstream - younger people, R&B and hip-hop fans mixed in with the jazz audience.
Robert Glasper
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Jazz Pianist
Mixed
Younger People
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If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.
Cecil Taylor
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Jazz Pianist
Creation
Goal
Musical
Life Music Your
Overall
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When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.
Dave Brubeck
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Jazz Pianist
Firsts
Knows
Play
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I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.
Dave Brubeck
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Jazz Pianist
Men
Cattle
Father
Hero
Rodeo
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We all have music in us - your heartbeat is your drum, your voice is your sound - and music is supposed to put you in tune with nature.
Randy Weston
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Jazz Pianist
Sound And Music
Tunes
Voice
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There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called "Sketch Book"; his name is Vardan Ovsepian.
Brad Mehldau
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Jazz Pianist
Beautiful
Book
Boston
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I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.
Dave Brubeck
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Jazz Pianist
Able
Has Beens
Rock N Roll
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Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.
Mary Lou Williams
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Jazz Pianist
Being Yourself
Musical
Playing Yourself
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I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.
Cecil Taylor
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Jazz Pianist
People
Relative
Thinking
Want
Nothin
Strengths
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I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.
Herbie Hancock
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Jazz Pianist
Importance
Should
Trying
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You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.
Diana Krall
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Jazz Pianist
Life Yourself My Life
Reveal
Sung
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