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"In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you."
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"If there is a wasp in the room, I'd like to be able to see it."
"It is not possible to know 'Who am I?' by 'doing'. 'Doing' (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, 'Who am I' cannot be known."
"Don't get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?"
"Query: How contrive not to waste one's time?Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while.Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth."
"In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive."
"God is not coming to fix any nation. The most he could do is to raise up a man or a woman who would take responsibility to fix the nation."
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"People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time."
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"People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy."
"The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine."
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"When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing."
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