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I sound like a crazy person... but I feel when a piano is happy, and I feel when they find that moment to be alive. I want them to remember me.

From Hiromi Uehara

At a show, I'll look out from the stage and see a woman with a pearl necklace next to a guy in a Grateful Dead T-shirt next to a young kid with his mom. It's fun to see them all together.

From Hiromi Uehara

I'm asked so many times why I think there aren't more female instrumentalists in jazz. But I never think about it. And I don't think it's been any harder for me to be taken seriously. The music speaks for itself.

From Hiromi Uehara

I always have a will to write. It's organic to me.

From Hiromi Uehara

When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It's a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a mirror.

From Hiromi Uehara

When I play music, I realize that it filters emotions. I believe that peoples' voices are expressed in their emotions, and I try to do the same with my music.

From Hiromi Uehara

The first time I listened to jazz was when I was 8.

From Hiromi Uehara

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.

From Hiromi Uehara

When you limit the word 'jazz' to one period of history, for the people who love that period, then maybe it can be dead because nobody plays like that anymore. But jazz is progressive music; it always has to progress, and musicians always have to find new landscapes and new ways to speak out, so of course it's always changing.

From Hiromi Uehara

I'm hungry to learn, so I always have my big ears open fully, ready to learn every single minute when I play.

From Hiromi Uehara

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