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"I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something."
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"When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up."
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"There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it."
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"In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet."
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"When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person."
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"When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished."
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"Modeling is more important than the talking we do."
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"Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing."
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"I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear."
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"I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something."
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"You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!"
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"I'm going to Yoshi's. I'm taking a few gigs. I'm playing. I'm not going to play all the time. I'm going to take it easy and take it slow and warm up so I can come back."
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"We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him."
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"I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something."
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"I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process."
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"That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age."
Age

"Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it."
Music

"I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind."
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"When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style."
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"I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself."
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"They always want to sell me as a hard bopper."
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