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"To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration."
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"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
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"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."
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"Having a job does not mean living."
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"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."
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"Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart."
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"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."
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"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."
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"We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really 'lived' a day in our lives."
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"There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there, one can never attain the awareness of the Self (Atma)."
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"You can believe in Christ and live a Christ like life."
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"I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio."
Love
"I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete."
Music
"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."
Sound
"If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that."
Will
"People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world."
People
"To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration."
Living
"If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die."
Music
"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged."
Strategy
"When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all."
Musicians
"Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same."
Appetite
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