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Nobody Was Playing The Soprano Saxophone And Certainly Nobody Was Trying To Do Anything With It. So I Was All Alone. I Didn't Know That At First.

I Heard Sidney Bechet Play A Duke Ellington Piece And Fell In Love With The Soprano Saxophone.

Jazz Is Like Wine. When It Is New It's Only For The Experts, But When It Gets Older Everybody Wants It.

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.

Register Is Very Important. Music Sounds Best In A Certain Register.