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"When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all."
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"We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording."
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"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."
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"I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing."
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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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"The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification."
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"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you."
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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
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"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."
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"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."
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"If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die."
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"They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind."
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"You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use."
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"I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio."
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"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
Music
"You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good."
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"When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all."
Musicians
"Saxophone is one thing, and music is another."
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"I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz."
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"I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here."
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