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"There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time."
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"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."


"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."


"There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25."


"What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact."


"I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz."


"It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again."


"I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons."


"Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music."


"What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years."


"I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid."
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