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• Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.
• Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
• After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have…
• It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.
• One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are all there;…
• If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
• To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special…
• People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.
• If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.
• I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the…
• I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do…
• Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you…

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