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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."
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"Imitation is the sincerest form of pain."
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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."
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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."
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"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
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"The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation."
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"I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up."
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"Imitation cannot go above its model."
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"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite."
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"Some people spend the best part of their lives living the dreams of others."
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"The worldly life has persisted due to imitation of worldly movements and by opposing them, one becomes free."
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"Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it."
Experts
"Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register."
Music
"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
"If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up."
People
"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged."
Strategy
"People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world."
People
"I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone."
Love
"When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing."
Music
"I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever."
History
"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
Music
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