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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I hear a recording I've made, I hear all kinds of things I could improve or things I should have done. There's always so much more to be done in music. It's so vast.
- Nov 07, 2020
Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
- Harmonic
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I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once, you know.
- Bored
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I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One time, when I was in my teens, jamming in a Kansas City club, I was doing all right until I tried doing double tempo on 'Body and Soul.' Everybody fell out laughing. I went home and cried and didn't want to play again for three months.
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I became bitter, hard, cold. I was always on a panic - couldn't buy clothes or a good place to live.
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- Nov 07, 2020