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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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"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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"I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards."
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"I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose."
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"I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play."
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"I usually play disenfranchised youth."
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"For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition."
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"The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different."
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"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."
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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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"I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast."
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"I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to."
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"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
"I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double."
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"Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula."
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"As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz."
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"Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary."
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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."
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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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"Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another."
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"I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound."
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