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"As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses."
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"Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another."
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"True emotions yearn for genre love of God."
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"The whole night I was thinking and dreaming to give you the most beautiful gift and that is my heart."
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"One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer."
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"Love as if you are born to love."
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"You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time."
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"My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that."
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"Love at all times."
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"Love the dream to live the dream."
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"Love is like a vast ocean."
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"What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image."
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"My music has always been strong in melodic content."
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"I have been recording for five decades now."
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"Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes."
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"I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance."
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"To do it always right, that is what music is to me."
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"Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from."
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"Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best."
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"We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides."
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"My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records."
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