Chick Corea
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth12 June 1941
CityChelsea, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
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It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.
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Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.
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The title 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' comes from 'I Ching,' an ancient Chinese book that I was into in the '60s when I was studying different philosophies and religions.
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The title grabbed me because I think life is the ultimate adventure. It?s a great attitude to have toward life - that it is an adventure, that you tackle things and have challenges and foes to overcome and goals to accomplish.
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I came along in the '60s having absorbed as much as I could up until then and added my own tastes and search into the equation. I guess that's how I see 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' in relation to the development of jazz in general.
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You get a zero at the end of your age number, and you get some extra attention. That's what I found out.
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When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, 'Hot House' was like a standard jam session tune.
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People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.
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It's made music more accessible with YouTube and the ability to trade audio files. But it hasn't made it more popular.
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I don't think any artist really knows why a song gets popular.
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I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.
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I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.
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When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.