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"I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play."
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"Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext."
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"So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel."
"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."
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"If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record."
"This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music."
"I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million."
"When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it."
"I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself."
"Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do."
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