I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.
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There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
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Take Five. There's a certain piece that if we don't play, we're in trouble.
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