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"I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me."
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"If you don't' know what you want, others will give you what they want."
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"Some activities may look attractive, but you don't have any business dating them, else they break you up. It may be good, but not right. Flee from good things and do right things!"
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"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives."
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"When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do."
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"The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity."
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"Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer."
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"Not making a decision means forgoing an opportunity."
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"Most good decisions that a person make are a result of reflection and the will to change."
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"One of the most empowering things about being human is the fact that a single choice can change the entire direction of our lives. What are you choosing for yourself?"
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"It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one."
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"But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded."
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"I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on."
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"You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses."
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"I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments."
Being
"Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!"
Evolution
"I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious."
Time
"The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span."
Time
"Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days."
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"I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me."
Decision
"Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language."
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