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"My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard."
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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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"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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"My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx."
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"No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping."
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"If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world."
Music
"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."
Jazz
"My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard."
Navy
"One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing."
Classroom
"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
"By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway."
Business
"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
"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."
Living
"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."
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