Zoot Sims quotes
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“As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.”
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“If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.”
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“My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.”
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“Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.”
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“If I don't play for a while, it's just like getting hungry.”
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“We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.”
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“I just take a tune and play it the only way I can. That's it. I don't really dwell on it very much. Some people probably do. I can only say I play it the way I feel it.”
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.
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Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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