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Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

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Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

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Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

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Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

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The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

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The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

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The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.

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There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

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They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.

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We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: July 23rd, 1934

Died: June 4th, 2004

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