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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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"Whatever you do gives you the name it gives."
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"I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody."
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"Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names."
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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
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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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"I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names."
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"Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand."
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"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."
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"We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything."
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"I'll name names, you know I won't hold back."
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"It's very demanding to make up your own music."
Music
"Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary."
Work
"I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double."
Work
"Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods."
History
"I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically."
Love
"Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz."
Building
"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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"Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode."
Name
"Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another."
People
"A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country."
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