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"If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that."
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"I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone."
Love
"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."
Sound
"I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio."
Love
"The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano."
Right
"Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention."
People
"I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination."
Imagination
"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
Music
"You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good."
First
"When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly."
Music
"If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that."
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."
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"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."
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"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
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"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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Personal Development
"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."
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"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
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"Your will to success supersedes all other wills."
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"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."
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