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"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."
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"I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble."

"Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it."

"I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives."

"We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it."

"Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us."

"I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to New Kids on the Block."

"If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want."
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"And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find."

"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."

"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."
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