I've been getting publishing royalties and stuff like that. I have just been lucky. They come in at … - Pharoah Sanders

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Pharoah Sanders

I've been getting publishing royalties and stuff like that. I have just been lucky. They come in at the right time. Sometimes they don't, but I am not wealthy or anything like that. I just love to work. I would rather work three hundred and something days out of the year. I would rather be working. They don't know. I love playing. Then I can really get my music together.

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I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked the sound, then fine, but I'm not interested in being a jazz musician. I don't consider myself a jazz musician. I don't have anything to do with that word.

Artist, Fine, Music, Sound, Word

He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and that was it. You were on your own. You had to be very independent being around John [Coltrane].

Coltrane, Independent, Jazz, Music, Said, Say

[John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing musically or my instrument or anything like that. He let me play whatever I wanted to play.

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I just want a band and keep them working, people that I like and who I think a lot of. Once my band is happy, then I am happy.

Band, Keep, Like, People, Thinking

I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

Drummer, Jazz, Love, Music, Percussions