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"I don't think you can contrive any sound."
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"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."
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"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves."
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"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show."
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"My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut."
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"Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace."
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"If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good."
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"Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes."
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"The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it."
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"I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound."
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"The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body."
Body
"As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction."
Art
"A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas."
Ideas
"Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product."
Now
"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."
Sound
"I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands."
Mouse
"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you."
Musicians
"I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much."
Men
"Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice."
Life
"You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles."
Death
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