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• ‟ The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

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• ‟ If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

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• ‟ When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.

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• ‟ I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.

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• ‟ There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

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• ‟ Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.

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• ‟ Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

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• ‟ Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

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