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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 got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me."
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"I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming."
"I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born."
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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."
"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."
"I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store."
"This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music."
"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."
"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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