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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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"You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way."

"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."

"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."

"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."

"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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"I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again."

"Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me."
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