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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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"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."

"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"

"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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"It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move."
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"We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you."

"Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes."

"The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips."

"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."

"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."

"He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music."

"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."

"It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers."

"I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit."
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