"I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have."
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"Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music."
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"Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things."
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"I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room."
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"The music was my friend, my lover, my family."
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"All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had."
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"Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by."
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"No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?"
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"I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused."
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"Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live."
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"The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music."
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"How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?"
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