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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…
• I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.
• Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me…
• One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis…
• I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I…
• If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.
• It's not what you play, it's how you play it.
• Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the…
• Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the…
• Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.
• He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.
• 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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