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"My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians."
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"We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us."
Father
"My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress."
Progress
"Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music."
Music
"You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents."
People
"We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation."
Democracy
"Thank the good Lord for a job."
Job
"Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now."
Now
"The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves."
People
"I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do."
Education
"I dress up a certain way because I respect the music."
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"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
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"At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me."
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"I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player."
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"We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do."
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"As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet."
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"Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes."
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"Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody."
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"I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs."
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"A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop."
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"I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility."
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