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After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.


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BLAINE LEE Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
BRUCE LEE People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.
LEE IACOCCA When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
LEE IACOCCA I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best ser...
LEE BRISTOL The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
LEE IACOCCA How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twic...
LEE TREVINO Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established sty...
BRUCE LEE If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your wo...
BRUCE LEE The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
HARPER LEE You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.
LEE TREVINO I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think no...
HARPER LEE My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eigh...
LEE TREVINO We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back.
LEE IACOCCA I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually nev...
LEE IACOCCA I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.
LEE TREVINO I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to min...
BRUCE LEE There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf b...
LEE TREVINO Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the funct...
BRUCE LEE I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you...
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