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"What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate."
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"I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded."

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"Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name."

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"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."
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