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"Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first."
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"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."
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"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."
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"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."
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"First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'."
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"To betray, you must first belong."
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"A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them."
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"Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it."
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"Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register."
Music
"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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"If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up."
People
"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged."
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"People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world."
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"I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone."
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"When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing."
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"I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever."
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"Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first."
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