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" A first love always occupies a special place. "
Always
First Love
Love
" After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way. "
Now
Time
Simple
" A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country. "
Around
Were
Lot
" As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz. "
People
Trying
Play
" Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet. "
Why
Wanted
Influences
" Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz. "
Jazz
World
Building
" I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually. "
Jam
Enough
Always
" I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound. "
Want
Stop
Sound
" I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard. "
Result
Feel
Like
" I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane. "
Many
Things
Coltrane
" I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart. "
Car
Train
Night
" I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. "
Listening
Enjoy
Jazz
" I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically. "
Much
Indian Music
Indian
" In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal. "
Some
Things
Young
" It's very demanding to make up your own music. "
Up
Demanding
Make
" It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music. "
Pure
Ego
Black And White
" I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double. "
Double
Work
Instrument
" I wish that person outside would stop coughing. "
I Wish
Wish
Stop
" Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula. "
Spell
Cool
Name
" Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another. "
Think
Way
Saying
" Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. "
Jazz
Vocabulary
Very
" Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode. "
Doing
Playing
Things
" Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods. "
Out
Things
Think
" Sound is the first thing that we tune into. "
First
Tune
Thing
" We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out. "
Other
Missed
Learn
" You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn. "
Jump
Learn
Someone
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