"I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here."

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"I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here."

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"I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz."

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"I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone."

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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."

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"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."

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"I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here."

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"I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music."

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"The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano."

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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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