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Herbie Mann

"I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years."

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"I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide."

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"Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One."

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"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."

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"The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive."

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"I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon."

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"I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years."

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"We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did."

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"Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches."

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"We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing."

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"My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania."
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"To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G."
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