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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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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."

"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."
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"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."

"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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"It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that."

"Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary."
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