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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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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."
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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."
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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."
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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."
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"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"
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"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."
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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
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"They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind."
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"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
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"You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good."
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"Saxophone is one thing, and music is another."
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"I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz."
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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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"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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"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."
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"The potential for the saxophone is unlimited."
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"When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now."
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