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A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

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Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

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Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

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Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.

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The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk.…

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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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Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

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There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style…

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Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

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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…

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When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.

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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…

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It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

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