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"You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

"Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new."

"I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great."

"You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?"

"The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center."
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"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."


"When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all."


"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."


"Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same."


"Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it."


"If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die."


"The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity."


"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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