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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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"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures."

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

"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)."

"I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon."

"Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes."
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"When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now."


"They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind."


"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."


"Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it."


"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."
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