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Dexter Gordon

"If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up."

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"If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up."

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"I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me."

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"I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming."

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"I play as I feel."

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"If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage."

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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"

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"You can't just play the same thing, over and over again."

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"Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best."

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"There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it."

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Akiroq Brost

"I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation."

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Akiroq Brost

"Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway."

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"A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on."
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"Music is a reservoir... of sounds."
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"Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people."
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"What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it."
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"When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem."
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"If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something."
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"To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche."
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"The music scene is more competitive in the States."
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"It's certainly not just a spot opinion; it's something that obviously has been building up for years. It is also very good for publicity, and it is the kind of recognition that maybe will help financially, also."
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"In nuclear war all men are cremated equal."
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