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• I was finishing up at High School of Performing Arts and finally, by the end of junior year and start of senior year, made some progress as a 16 year-old classical saxophone player. But not really... not like how the legit cats do. But I love the [Jacques] Ibert, love [Alexander] Glazunov, love the [Paul] Creston.

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  Senior, Art, School

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• I was studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an incredible experience.

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  Able, Saxophone, Students

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• I never got discouraged for long, but we all got our butts kicked musically.

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  Long, Discouraged

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• One time, I think it was my third lesson third or fourth lesson. Kim Parker and he picked me up at the bus station. And she just said, "Phil [Wood] has been up all night. He's heartbroken. Bud Johnson died last night." And Bud Johnson, like Zoot [Sims] and Al [Cohn] had been mentors to him.

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  Heartbroken, Night, Thinking

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• Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people.

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  People, Negative, Culture

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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• I went in [Sweet Basil band] and played with them, maybe half the gig for almost eight years or more.

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  Sweet, Eight, Years

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• I'm very gratified that I had my little 15 minutes,or whatever [at the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]. It certainly didn't make me rich and famous. But it helped a little bit for a while.

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  Competition, Littles, Saxophone

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• Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

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  Teacher, Art, Classical Music

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• I think what frustrated me more than anything else in my formative years was that I just had to work. I had to have a job. Like twenty to thirty hours a week, a lot of times in high school and college. And that was hard.

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  Jobs, School, College

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• There's a lot of good people out here that want to help you grow and to help the music to continue to grow and evolve and go find those folks and be around them and carry it on... carrying the tradition on in the way with what it is that you have to offer. Find some good people in the music that will believe in you and they'll help you do that.

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  Believe, People, Want

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• If I could have picked two guys on the planet, to have some exposure to at that age, those were the two right guys [Phil Woods and Charles McPherson].

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  Two, Guy, Age

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• A lot of musicians have said things to me like, "Music saved my life". And "I'm standing on the shoulders of dozens of people that you've never heard of that were like angels for me that came out of the woodwork." And that's really the case for me. I had so many people that did those kinds of things for me.

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  Angel, People, Musician

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• Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."

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  Mean, Greek, Enthusiasm

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.108, John Wiley & Sons

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• I asked all through third, fourth and fifth grade, when they were asking kids to be in the band, to be in the school band. But they wouldn't let me do it.

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  School, Kids, Band

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• Sometimes you think "Okay, well I'm going to play my horn, and I'm going to study Charlie "Bird" Parker solos or [John Coltrain] or whatever." But as [Phil Wood] said to me, "Man, Bird listened to everything."

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  Men, Thinking, Play

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• When we hear music that we love that changes the world for us, we might as well at least aspire to something like that and aim high. You're probably not going to get beyond your dreams. So you might as well make them big.

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  Dream, World, Might

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• [My mother] told me a little bit about the scene out there and I think, as a small child, I just always felt a connection to that history because my mother had described it to me.

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  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• What I feel the most confident about as a teacher, whatever my strengths and weaknesses are. The fact that I got to be around those people, I feel like that I have something to offer because of that blessing. Being around them a little bit... I'm not them. I'm certainly not trying to compare myself to them. But in lieu of them being able to impart something, the fact that I had so many people like that that were kind to me and talked to me was invaluable.

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  Teacher, Blessing, People

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• I just think that I associated music with something that was healing and transformative as a kid.

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  Healing, Kids, Thinking

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• When [Charlie Parker] saw the young guys, especially the ones that were scuffling... "Did you eat today?" And if you hadn't eaten, he'd take you and buy you some lunch.

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  Lunch, Guy, Today

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• We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just a little, I think it was too painful for her.

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  Mother, Kids, Thinking

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• [Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

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  Artist, Woods, Language

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• I feel very similarly. I didn't have necessarily the same exact kind of dynamic, but that means a lot when people are like that with you. Especially people like that. And I think [Phil Wood] felt a certain responsibility .

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  Mean, Responsibility, Thinking

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• I got to talk to people like Mel [Lewis] and Milt Hilton and Benny Carter and Clark Terry and... Jay McShann. I just found myself in some circumstances, on some gigs or sometimes in clubs, with the ability to talk to some of these people. Just being around their energy and being around that history was invaluable. And what I normally say to young people that are getting into the music, if you can and go... now there's less of those folks around, sadly.

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  People, Clubs, Gigs

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• You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a great man.

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  Struggle, Men, Guy

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