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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.

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

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I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: October 13th, 1927

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