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"Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode."
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"Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough."
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"Whatever you do gives you the name it gives."
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"Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em."
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"I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock."
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"Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes."
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"I'll name names, you know I won't hold back."
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"Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post."
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"I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible."
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"I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave."
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"My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS."
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"A first love always occupies a special place."
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"Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode."
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"Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary."
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"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."
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"I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically."
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"It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music."
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"You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn."
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"As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz."
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"Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods."
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"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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