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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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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up."
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"Well, first, I didn't kill Dr. King."
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"First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos."
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"I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA."
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"The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there."
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"I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media."
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"Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention."
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"Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk."
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"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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"They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind."
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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."
First
"The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity."
Music
"You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use."
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"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged."
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"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."
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"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
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