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"I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times."
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"Listening is the key to everything good in music."
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"The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities."
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"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
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"I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times."
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"I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted."
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"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."
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"My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent."
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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
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"It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place."
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"I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly."
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"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."
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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
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"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
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"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators."
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"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after."
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"I did feel from day one that I was a born performer."
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"A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day."
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"Every day, I have a most embarrassing moment."
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"No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids."
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