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• His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering…
• As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.
• After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were…
• So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of…
• As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
• I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If…
• Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
• The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their…
• So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things…
• But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became…
• Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you…
• And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may…

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