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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."
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"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."
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"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."
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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."
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"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."
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"After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously."
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"The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field."
Success

"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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"This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear."
Life

"When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins."
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"Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones."
Dance

"Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs."
Job

"When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing."
Italy

"I've appeared on some other people's albums."
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"People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time."
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"New York is still where I live most of the time."
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