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"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged."
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"You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?"

"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable."

"I bet you anything that 10 times out of 10, Nicky, Vinny and Tony will beat the shit out of Todd, Kyle and Tucker."

"Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures."

"Everything meaningful encounters resistance, don't get scared of whatever comes your way, just go with the right strategy and plan, their you'll overcome it at last."

"So you want me to track down a supernaturally fast sniper who can disappear into thin air, retrieve your maps, and do it so nobody finds out what I'm doing or why?''Exactly.'I sighed. 'I'll get the paperwork."
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"When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now."


"They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind."


"Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same."


"Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it."


"I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio."
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