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"There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25."
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"I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid."


"What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years."


"I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves."


"I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together."


"Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing."


"My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune."


"I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that."


"Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music."


"There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time."


"Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there."
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