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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes."

"We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides."

"Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them."

"There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right."

"I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea."
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