If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.
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One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.
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My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.
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There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.
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You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
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