Zoot Sims Quotes

• As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.

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  Music, Long, Mouths

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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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  Music, Play, People

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• If I don't play for a while, it's just like getting hungry.

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  Play, Hungry, Ifs

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• Music keeps people sane.

  Zoot Sims

  People, Sane

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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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  Daddy, Records, Made

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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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  Play, People, Tunes

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• My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

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  Music, Mom, Reeds

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• Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

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  Music, White, Jazz

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