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"You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

"And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part."

"I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media."

"It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems."
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"The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation."

"The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do."

"I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different."

"It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you."

"If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools."
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