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"Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were."
"They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet."
"Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great."
"Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together."
"You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions."
"The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that."
"We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning."
"In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships."
"The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada."
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"It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music."
"After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way."
"I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound."
"I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to."
"I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that."
"Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary."
"I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart."
"I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double."
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