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"The key is to keep improving. I'm not there yet. I know I have to keep trying to improve and keep trying to get faster."

"Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US."
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"I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord."
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"On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead."

"To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel."

"I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass."

"If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world."

"I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out."
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