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"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."
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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."
"Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound."
"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."
"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves."
"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."
"This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that could be made having to do with both the sound and the feel. It's definitely a beautiful instrument."
"I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him."
"That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound."
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"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."
"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."
"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."
"There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language."
"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."
"People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world."
"To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration."
"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."
"If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die."
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