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A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

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Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

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If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

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The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

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You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

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As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

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I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

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I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

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I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

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My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: February 2nd, 1927

Died: June 6th, 1991

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