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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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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
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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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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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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 doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."
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"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."
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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."
Money
"I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something."
Talking
"I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself."
Kids
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
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