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I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.

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I'm not special, no more special than anybody else.

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Take whatever happens and try to make it work.

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I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.

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My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

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One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.

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Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

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I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

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Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 12th, 1940

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