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"I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it."
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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."

"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
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"I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it."

"I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade."

"To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years."

"I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with."

"There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards."

"Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent."
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