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I am one of the best kept secrets in jazz history. Many of my early records are hard to find and it is still difficult to release new ones.

— Clare Fischer

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Johnny has never written a tune – at least none I've ever heard – that wasn't melodically and harmonically perfect.

the liner notes from Songs for Rainy Day Lovers (1967)

My God, I heard this guy's albums for ages and finally to be able to look at him and see how he does it!"

I'm two people. One is a teddy bear who is soft and cuddly. And the other is this guy who says, "Don't push me."

They disenfranchised me. It's like giving an award to Woody Herman's sax section, but not Woody, for "Early Autumn."

I relate to everything. I'm not just jazz, Latin or classical. I really am a fusion of all of those; not today's fusion, but my fusion.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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