I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.
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My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.
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When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.
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I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.
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I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
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I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.
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Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
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You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
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