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I have won several prizes as the world’s slowest alto player, as well as a special award in 1961 for quietness.
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Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.
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I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
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Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
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I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.
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Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
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The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.
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We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.