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• I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want…
• Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the…
• Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft
• Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every…
• I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began…
• When you are playing with someone who really has something to say, even though they may be otherwise quite different in style,…
• Change is inevitable in music - things change.
• There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want…
• There is never any end... There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the…
• I've always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or…
• During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer,…
• Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.

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