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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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"Avoiding setting too strong rules is the best way not to have problems with your own rules."
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"The thing about negotiations, not to mention the manipulation, is you can't go too far in any direction. Refusing once is good, twice is usually okay but a third is risky. You never know when the third person will stop playing and you end up with nothing."
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"In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might."
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"The trick is in genuinely appreciating the elements of apparent resistance while you are engaging them. Not to oppose or remove them as much as to creatively fold them into one's linear line of movement, exploiting them and making the necessary adjustments as you go."
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"No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win."
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"Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval of a revolution. But he argued that revolutionary propaganda was a delicate work of high conscience. It was the education of the masters of the world. It should be as careful as the education given to kings."
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"If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer."
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"The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution."
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"You must consciously and carefully write out a plan of achieving your goals."
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"I could kill him for her," Fury offered.Vane cleared his throat."Well, he could have an accident," Fury tried again. "Humans have those all the time."
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"Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk."
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"If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die."
Music
"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."
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"The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity."
Music
"You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use."
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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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"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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"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
Music
"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."
Appetite
"You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good."
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