My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I’m interested in doing.

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Buildings Paintings Performance Shows

I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don’t continue the art because they can’t make a living.

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Excuses Guys Living Male

If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won’t succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

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Improvised Musician

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations.

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Groups Possibilities Realms

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations – something that I imagine could be troublesome.

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Loudly Reverberation Use

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed.

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Musician

There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.

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Dwell Musicians

I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn’t been within the realm of possibility.

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Possibility Realm Recording Released

In the middle 1940s… I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

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Happening Middle

I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.

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Controlled Large

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.

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Rehearsals

My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do.

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Careers

You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received.

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Correspondence Know Letting Received Significant

I have no distributor… it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over.

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Letting Go

My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do.

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