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"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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"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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Personal Development
"I am older than your age and younger than your body."
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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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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."
Music
"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."
Play
"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."
Age
"I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process."
Drink
"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
"I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself."
Kids
"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."
Money
"I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind."
Mind
"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
"They always want to sell me as a hard bopper."
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