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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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"If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always."
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"I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!"
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"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind."
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"Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back."
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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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"If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing."
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"We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right."
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"It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right."
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"When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice."
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"Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention."
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"People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world."
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"Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk."
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"You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others."
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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."
Production
"If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up."
People
"Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first."
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"The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity."
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"You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use."
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