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"A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country."
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"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."
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"I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike."
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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."
"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 listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to."
"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."
"Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another."
"It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music."
"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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