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As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.

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Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning. ' That's how you play jazz.

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I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

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Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

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The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

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I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

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Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

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