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Dexter Gordon

"Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future."

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"Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future."

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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."

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"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

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"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."

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"Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music."

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"When words leave off, music begins."

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"One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up."

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"In nuclear war all men are cremated equal."
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