- Magnificent
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Invent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.
- Single
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- Nov 07, 2020
It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.
- Nov 07, 2020
The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
- Machine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020