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"I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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"Speaking unspoken words,music is a good way to say."
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"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."

"It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again."

"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."

"There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time."

"I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz."

"Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music."

"Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing."

"My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune."

"I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid."
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