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"I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz."
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"I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz."
"I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid."
"Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing."
"You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives."
"I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs."
"What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact."
"There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25."
"I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons."
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