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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
Want,
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
Want,
"The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them."
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"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."
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"Yes, I can play. I can play. I can't play as long as I did and as hard, but I don't think I have to."
"I'm going to Yoshi's. I'm taking a few gigs. I'm playing. I'm not going to play all the time. I'm going to take it easy and take it slow and warm up so I can come back."
"We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him."
"I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process."
"That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age."
"Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it."
"I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind."
"When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style."
"I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself."
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