00:00I started listening and I said, wow, he is. He's great. I really like him.
00:09I've never heard him make a harmonic mistake. Never.
00:13Not one wrong note.
00:17He should rate with those of Chopin.
00:19The influence that he had on jazz has gone on for another hundred years.
00:24Kind of Blue was 1959 and that's what was going on.
00:28That's what was going on, baby.
00:40Jazz is the most central and important thing in my life.
00:46One Sunday we came in and we couldn't get Bill to get on the bandstand.
00:50I can't play good.I can't do this.
00:52One night he really put Bill down.
00:54He said, you ought to go and look in the mirror, man.
00:56What the fuck are you doing, man?
00:57He said, you were playing great.
00:58And now he said, you weren't playing good at all.
01:00As much as he wanted to quit, he couldn't.
01:08Whoever knew that that day would be such an important day.
01:15He threw himself in front of a subway.
01:17She was totally devoted to Bill.
01:24This was a tremendous loss for Bill.
01:29Like many virtuoso pianists, Bill had selfishness.
01:33And I think he hurt a hell of a lot of people.
01:36Bill's physical exterior was pretty much falling apart,
01:39but the power of his music is still completely intact.
01:44Right to the bitter end.
01:48I want to build my music from the bottom up.
01:51Then I arrived at myself for every note I play.
01:53Someone music plays
02:06That's a great way for the hall,
02:08even if he was ready to quit.
02:10Al never went a lot of children.
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