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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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"There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much."

"I never get tired of hearing compliments."

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

"Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment."

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

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

"I can't simulate you with moon, moon is fully naked and you are fully clothed."

"If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable."

"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved."

"I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent."
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"Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special."


"I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature."


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


"The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty."


"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."


"When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers."


"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."
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