"What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on."

-- Gerry Mulligan

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“I had always broken the rules.”
“The humility to prepare and the self-confidence to bring it off.”
“It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.”

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“When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.”
“I know it sounds stupid and cliche, but I just want to get better. I want to keep improving.”
“I'd be lying if I said I went into any project with any premeditated ideas of what's gonna happen or what's gonna be perceived as a result of it. I just kinda work on autopilot and then, when it's done, it's done and I have more of an internal sense of when that is. And then I leave it up to the audience to decide if one's better than the other.”
“This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.”
“I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.”

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