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"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."

"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

"Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine."

"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
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"As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets."

"There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting."

"It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar."

"We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have."

"I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends."

"We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for."

"You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time."
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