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"I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself."
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"The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe."
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"I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble."
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"I would never want any of my kids to go into this industry; not until they are old enough to understand and if this is something that they really want to do."
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"We have been in Victoria for 3 years now after moving here from Vancouver. Victoria is a great place to live and we plan on staying especially as the kids are now in school."
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"Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest."
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"I didn't do the typical things that young kids do."
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"I think these shows with the young kids doing these jumps, doing these fantastic back flips, I think they're absolutely great. They did what I never did."
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"We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by."
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"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."
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"I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked."
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"Yes, I can play. I can play. I can't play as long as I did and as hard, but I don't think I have to."
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"I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process."
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"I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself."
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"They always want to sell me as a hard bopper."
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"I'm going to Yoshi's. I'm taking a few gigs. I'm playing. I'm not going to play all the time. I'm going to take it easy and take it slow and warm up so I can come back."
Time

"We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him."
Art

"That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age."
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"When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style."
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"I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something."
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"Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it."
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