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Music keeps people sane.

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Zoot Sims
Age: 59 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 29
Died: 1985
Died: March 23
Composer
Jazz Musician
Musician
Saxophonist
Inglewood
California
John Haley Zoot Sims
John Haley Sims
Keeps
Music
People
Sane

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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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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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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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If I don't play for a while, it's just like getting hungry.
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As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.
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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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