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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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"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."
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"You can believe in Christ and live a Christ like life."
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"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."
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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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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
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"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
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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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"The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual."
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"To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word."
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"Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention."
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"People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world."
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"Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk."
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"You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others."
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"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."
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"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."
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"If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up."
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"Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first."
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"The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity."
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"You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use."
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