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"Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary."
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"After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way."

"I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to."

"I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double."

"Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula."

"You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn."
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