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"I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13."
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"My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard."
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"My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx."
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"I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific."
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"No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping."
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"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
Jazz
"Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time."
Time
"If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count."
Family
"There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians."
Help
"If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes."
Truth
"They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously."
Education
"You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work."
Work
"In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that."
Time
"By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway."
Business
"My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard."
Navy
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