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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
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"I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios."
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"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."
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"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."
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"You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way."
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"All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds."
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"We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording."
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"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
"You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles."
Death
"I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much."
Men
"I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got."
Sound
"A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas."
Ideas
"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 played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands."
Mouse
"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
"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
"Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product."
Now
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