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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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"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."
"The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original."
"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."
"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."
"There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language."
"Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first."
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