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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…
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I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.
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Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me…
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One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis…
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I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I…
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If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.
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It's not what you play, it's how you play it.
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Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the…
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the…
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Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.
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He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.
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When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano…
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So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study…
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Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me…
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I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
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Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things…
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My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged…
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of…
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I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.
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It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add…
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