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"The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano."
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"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there."
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"Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong."
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"When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice."
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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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"He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze."
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"The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around."
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"Your gut is always right."
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"The album was very agressive. It kicks you right in the balls."
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"I'm going to try to pull a Natalie Portman. Natalie went to Harvard while shooting 'Star Wars'. I don't know how she did it. I want to have lunch with her and ask her - that seems like a bunch of stress right there."
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"To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it."
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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."
Love
"I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete."
Music
"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."
Sound
"If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that."
Will
"People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world."
People
"To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration."
Living
"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."
Music
"The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano."
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"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged."
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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
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