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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.

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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.

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If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

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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.

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Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

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Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

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Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

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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.

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People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: July 23rd, 1934

Died: June 4th, 2004

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