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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."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up."
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"Well, first, I didn't kill Dr. King."
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"First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos."
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"I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA."
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"The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there."
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"I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media."
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"They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind."
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"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
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"You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good."
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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."
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"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."
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"When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now."
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"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."
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"When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly."
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"Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register."
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"Jazz is people's music, a collectivity."
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