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Suggest Revision: Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone and hurt them to the bone, you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
 
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Suggest Revision: Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
 
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Suggest Revision: My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
 
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Suggest Revision: One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.
 
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Suggest Revision: There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.
 
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Suggest Revision: They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.
 
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Suggest Revision: When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.
 
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Suggest Revision: You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
 
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Suggest Revision: By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.
 
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Suggest Revision: I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
 
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