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When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.

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I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

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I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through.

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Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

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Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

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I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.

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My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves. . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.

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