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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Sound is the first thing that we tune into. "

" A first love always occupies a special place. "

" Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode. "

" I wish that person outside would stop coughing. "

" Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. "

" In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal. "

" 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. "

" Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods. "

" A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country. "

" I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double. "

" We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out. "

" As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz. "

" It's very demanding to make up your own music. "

" I hear many extra-musical things somehow in 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. "

" 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. "

" I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard. "

" I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. "

" 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. "

" It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music. "

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" Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet. "

" I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically. "

" Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another. "