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1:13:21
Looks like you need
something better than a rose.

1:13:25
What the fuck you want
to go back to New York for?

1:13:29
Because.
1:13:32
Yeah?
"Because."

1:13:36
You know, I been here four years.
1:13:40
I work ten months out of the year.
More, if I want to.

1:13:44
Go to Belgium, Holland, Sweden.
1:13:48
You could do the same thing.
1:13:51
You know, I don't go for
that shit you people play...

1:13:55
...but over here,
they are crazy about it.

1:14:00
Now, you don't get rich, but you live.
1:14:03
And they treat you like a man.
1:14:07
Now, what you got to go back to?
1:14:09
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They named a place after you.

1:14:14
How much of that place do you own?
1:14:17
When the gig is over, you still
be scuffling to find the next one.

1:14:22
If there is a next one.
1:14:24
You can't earn no living...
1:14:27
...playing jazz...
1:14:29
...in the States.
1:14:31
Diz can.
1:14:33
Duke can.
1:14:35
Well, you ain't Diz
and you sure as hell ain't Duke.

1:14:39
And they ain't me.
What the hell does that matter?

1:14:42
I'm not talking about
what you do on the bandstand.

1:14:44
Everybody said you the man.
1:14:47
Well, that's great.
1:14:49
Until you mess up.
1:14:50
And you always mess up.
1:14:53
You mess up over there,
you'll be in trouble so deep...

1:14:56
...they won't let you play in the
goddamn place they named after you.


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