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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 am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff."

"We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour."

"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."

"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"
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"It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music."

"Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to."

"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."
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