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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."
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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."
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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."
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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."
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"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"
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"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."
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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
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"Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention."
People
"Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk."
Heart
"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
"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
"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."
Music
"You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use."
Music
"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged."
Strategy
"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
"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
Music
"Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same."
Appetite
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