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"So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known."
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"We all know, intuitively, that if something is humanly possible, it is possible for ourselves."

"And the idea of light unexplainably produced out of nothing was haunting, it shook me. A flat drab mountain could produce its own light, no one in this whole world knows why, and if that was possible then of course there must be other things that seemed impossible that weren't, and so anything-great and terrible-felt possible to me now."

"Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace."

"Possibilities lies in a daring dream."

"Life holds timeless fortunes for you."

"Create your own miracles, don't just wait for miracles to happen. Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want."

"It is possible to have what you wish for."

"Because I have 'chosen' to see something as impossible, there's a good chance that it's not."

"Nothing in life is a foregone conclusion unless and until it is foregone and concluded."

"To live safely within the realm of possibility is to know nothing other than that which is possible. To live boldly within the realm of God is to experience everything that's impossible."
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"I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on."

"If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances."

"In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations."

"I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments."

"There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore."

"Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language."

"Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days."

"So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there."

"I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me."
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