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"In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead."
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"I can't simulate you with moon, moon is fully naked and you are fully clothed."

"For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common."

"I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth."

"Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them."

"I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget."

"Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment."

"Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. "And as for who you are, you're the same beautiful, brave, and ridiculously smart caffeinated fighter you've been since the day I met you. Finally, he put "beautiful at the top of his list of adjectives. Not that I should have cared."Sweet talker, I scoffed. "You didn't know anything about me the first time we met."I knew you were beautiful, he said. "I just hoped for the rest."

"Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment."
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"When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously."


"That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music."


"That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done."


"Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village."


"That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there."


"There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them."


"Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot."
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