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Joe Henderson

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A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.


— Joe Henderson


#customers #enter #event #fundamental #insists

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.


— Joe Henderson


#course #ever-changing #feelings #find #light

His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him.


— Joe Henderson


#buzz #fits #genetic #him #his

I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut.


— Joe Henderson


#break #day #either #even #feared

I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1,000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire of this course.


— Joe Henderson


#course #i #lived #more #nearby

In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners.


— Joe Henderson


#assistance #bandits #course #cross #drinks

Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.


— Joe Henderson


#became #converted #dump #favorite #first

Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.


— Joe Henderson


#daily #drop #eventually #ever #feel

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.


— Joe Henderson


#found #gives #illusion #important #mile

That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.


— Joe Henderson


#feel #few #how #most #us






About Joe Henderson

Joe Henderson Quotes




Did you know about Joe Henderson?

His first approach to the saxophone was under the tutelage of Herbert Murphy in high school. While attending classes of flute and bass at Wayne State University he further developed his saxophone and compositional skills under the guidance of renowned teacher Larry Teal at the Teal School of Music. Then he was sent to Maryland to conclude his draft.

In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels including Blue Note. Joe Henderson (April 24 1937 – June 30 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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