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"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."
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"The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy."

"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."

"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"
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"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."

"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"
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"Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough."

"Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent."

"I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade."

"I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with."

"I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create."

"There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards."

"In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland."

"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."
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