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"There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language."
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"I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone."
Love
"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."
Sound
"I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio."
Love
"The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano."
Right
"I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination."
Imagination
"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
Music
"You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good."
First
"You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use."
Music
"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."
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"If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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