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Bruce Hornsby

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I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.


— Bruce Hornsby


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I felt it was time for there to be a document of what we sound like now.


— Bruce Hornsby


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I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.


— Bruce Hornsby


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I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.


— Bruce Hornsby


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No, I do it all, but I do love to play solo.


— Bruce Hornsby


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Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better.


— Bruce Hornsby


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When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.


— Bruce Hornsby


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When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.


— Bruce Hornsby


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While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.


— Bruce Hornsby


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Hornsby selected ten Model B Steinway Grands to be featured in this collection each one personalized with his signature. 3 FM and he has endowed the Bruce Hornsby Creative American Music Program at University of Miami's Frost School of Music encouraging the study of songwriting broadly across traditional genres. Ultimately though the core "rock band" sound of the Range limited Hornsby's aspirations and after a final three-week tour in 1991 Hornsby disbanded the outfit to enter a new phase of his career.

Hornsby has also achieved recognition for his solo albums and performances his touring band Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers his bluegrass project with Ricky Skaggs and his appearances as a session- and guest-musician. He also collaborated with Grateful Dead and was a member of the band from September 1990 to March 1992 playing at many shows during that period. Known for the spontaneity and creativity of his live performances Hornsby draws frequently from classical jazz bluegrass folk Motown rock blues and jam band musical traditions with his songwriting and the seamless improvisations contained within.

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