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"A touch of love makes everything better."
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"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."

"I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio."

"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."

"There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language."

"If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that."

"People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world."

"To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration."

"I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination."
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