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"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to."

"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."
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"You can only be afraid of what you think you know."
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"To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel."

"If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world."

"I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out."

"I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass."

"On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead."
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