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"I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard."
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"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."

"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"

"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."
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"When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down."
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"After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way."

"You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn."

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"Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods."

"I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that."

"Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz."

"Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary."

"I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart."
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