You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

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I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

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I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

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Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

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A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

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If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

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As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

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You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

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I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

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My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

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