To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

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By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together.

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You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

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I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

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Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

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My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

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My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

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If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.

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Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

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I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

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