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"Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing."
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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."
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"Every old poem is sacred."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney."
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"If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy."
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"I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy."
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"I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned."
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
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"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
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"I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck."
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"Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing."
Old
"I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television."
People
"It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this."
Men
"If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle."
Experience
"My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store."
Family
"I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins."
School
"We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old."
Life
"I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe."
Europe
"It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do."
Trouble
"We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother."
Brother
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