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(8 votes)   The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

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(7 votes)   I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

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(6 votes)   Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.

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(6 votes)   When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

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(6 votes)   You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

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(5 votes)   Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

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(5 votes)   What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

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(4 votes)   It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

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(4 votes)   When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.

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(3 votes)   Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

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(3 votes)   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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(10 votes)   Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

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(10 votes)   You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

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(6 votes)   When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.

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(6 votes)   When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.

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