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If you're playing with a number of people, there are all sorts of textures, all kinds of possibilities you can get into. So why just play a theme together and then take solos?

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What I'm after is a composed music that will sound like improvised music when improvisors play it. You shouldn't be able to tell what parts are being improvised and what parts were written out beforehand; it should sound like the same music.

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It wasn't until I got out of the Army and I heard Coltrane's record 'Coltrane,' when he was doing 'Inch Worm' and 'Out of This World,' that I thought, 'Oh my God, you can do that?' And then I thought, 'OK, I better go back and listen to Eric Dolphy a bit.' And then I said, 'Hmm, I better pull out these Ornette Coleman records.'

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Man, I used to go around and think, 'Oh my God, what must it be like to be going down the street, and someone asks you, 'What's your name?' and the reply would be, 'John Coltrane.' I couldn't imagine what that would be like.

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I noticed that when it came time to improvise, my students would often make mistakes.

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My central quest was to have a piece played on the saxophone sound like more than one instrument, exploiting different registers and wide interval leaps.

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I feel I'm most successful when I'm playing a concert, and it doesn't necessarily seem like I'm playing a saxophone but am coming off more like an orchestra or something like that.

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I like to explore sounds.

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I feel that in order to learn as much about music as I would like to learn, I would need more than one lifetime.

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I'm into something that definitely does require your attention, and with that, you're not going to run out of things to do. You're never going to be the master of music.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Composer

Born: August 3rd, 1940

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