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"I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete."
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"Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator."
"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."
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"When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now."
"They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind."
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"The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity."
"Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it."
"When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing."
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