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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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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"
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"Want to play baseball?' she asked. Shane's eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. "What?' "First base,' she said. "You're already there.' "I'm not running the bases.' "Well, you could at least steal second.' "Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you've gone and ruined it."
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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."
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"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."
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"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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"If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up."
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"It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move."
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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."
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"When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass."
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"Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well."
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"It's very demanding to make up your own music."
Music
"Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary."
Work
"I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double."
Work
"Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods."
History
"I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically."
Love
"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."
Building
"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."
Will
"Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode."
Name
"Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another."
People
"A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country."
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