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• After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and…
• I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section…
• I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I…
• I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to…
• I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van…
• I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
• Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
• I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
• Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came…
• A first love always occupies a special place.
• Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
• I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

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