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Nice follow-up quote from Erroll Garner a few chapters after the Miles Davis quote I posted earlier:

“I always play for my audience … The day you say you don’t need your public, you should give up your instrument and quit, I don’t care who you are.”

I’m really living this book. I wish I could shake Art Taylor’s hand for doing these interviews with so many giants.

Who chi who chi coo

  • Art Taylor:: What does 'who chi coo' mean, and how do you spell it?

  • Erroll Garner:: Just the way it sounds. 'Who chi coo' is an expression that Sarah Vaughan and I used all the time years ago, because we were very good friends ... It means "magnificent obsession." If I dig what you do, when we're playing, you're a magnificent obsession; if I don't, I say nothing. So when I say "Who chi who chi coo," that means you really are a magnificent obsession.

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