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"Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with."
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"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."
People
"I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone."
Love
"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."
Sound
"Saxophone is one thing, and music is another."
Music
"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."
Love
"I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music."
Music
"The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano."
Right
"Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention."
People
"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."
Imagination
"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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"The world system is employment."
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"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."
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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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"I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline."
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"Do not be weary to make money."
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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."
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