I write very slowly.

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I don't need much coaxing.

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I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.

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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

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I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.

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I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.

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When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.

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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

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