"Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode."

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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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"When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us."

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"The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about."

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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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"Whatever you do gives you the name it gives."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano."

Bob Hope, American Comedian

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"Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right."

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"I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names."

Jim Sullivan, English Musician

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"Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula."

Formula

"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."

Time

"I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to."

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"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."

Sound

"It's very demanding to make up your own music."

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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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"Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another."

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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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"Sound is the first thing that we tune into."

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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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