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Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new:... →
As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In... →
I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this... →
And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because... →
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved... →
But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the... →
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and... →
That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity... →
The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first... →
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