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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."

"You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel."

"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."

"In the U.S the right is very wide. From Neo con's to almost Anarchist."

"When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!"

"We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters."

"That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did."
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"If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world."

"To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel."

"I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out."

"I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass."

"On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead."
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