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" Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant. "
Bamboo
Weed
Magnificent
" Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work. "
You
Work
Invent
" Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with. "
Circumstances
People
Important
" I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. "
New
Love
Jazz
" If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die. "
Play
Want
You
" If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that. "
Free
Better
You
" If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up. "
Going
New
People
" I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone. "
Saxophone
Play
Love
" I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. "
New
New Orleans
Music
" I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever. "
History
Love
Jazz
" I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed. "
Art
Think
Collaboration
" It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing. "
Single
Sound
Worth
" It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up. "
You
Through
Sound
" I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here. "
Here
Great
Lucky
" I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination. "
Imagination
Limit
Possibilities
" I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music. "
Play
Now
Alone
" I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down. "
Up
Just
Sit
" I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete. "
Music
Monk
Good
" Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it. "
Only
Jazz
Older
" Jazz is people's music, a collectivity. "
People
Jazz
Music
" Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. "
Different
Him
Be Grateful
" Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first. "
Know
Alone
Saxophone
" People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world. "
Good
World
Want
" Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same. "
Interesting
Losing
Play
" Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register. "
Sounds
Music
Important
" Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk. "
Risk
Play
Note
" Saxophone is one thing, and music is another. "
Music
One Thing
Another
" Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. "
Want
Some People
People
" The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original. "
People
Monk
Original
" The potential for the saxophone is unlimited. "
Saxophone
Unlimited
Potential
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