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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."
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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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