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The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on…
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It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you…
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You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and…
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My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring…
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I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...
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Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human…
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The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated…
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I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.
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I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you…
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I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.
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Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it.…
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Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food…
— Brendan Behan
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
— Mark Twain
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Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.
— Richard Branson
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True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
— Mark Twain
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Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.
— Mary Ruefle
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We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.
— Pierre Boulez
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Irreverence is our only sacred cow.
— Paul Krassner
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Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom.
— Simon Schama
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The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too…
— Paul Krassner
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There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.
— Stan Getz
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Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards…
— Erich Fromm
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