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The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

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During the years I was with Andy Kirk we starved almost. I remember not eating for practically a month several times. But we were very, very happy because the music was so interesting, and you forgot to eat, anyway.

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I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

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It's not what you play, it's how you play it.

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Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

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Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

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One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

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