Emma Amos: Well, we were all confused at that time. I was just so nervous and it was awful.
Billy Woods: Well, it depends. Will you be able to make it to the funeral?
Amos: No. Yes. I don’t know.
Woods: You don’t know if you’re going to win.
Amos: You just couldn’t. And it’s all a drag and so boring to be associated with that.
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Woods: Why?
Amos: Because I’m not interested in angles so much now.
Woods: You have more problems than you feel capable of dealing with, with whatever resources you have.
Amos: And they appreciate anything you can tell them about what you’ve done. Or they’ve never done it, or it’s something new. Or they haven’t done them recently.
Woods: But all of a sudden, there’s the coup in Portugal, and the Portuguese leave Angola and Mozambique.
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Amos: Jazz is supposedly dead.
Woods: What’s going to happen after that is hard to say.
Amos: Afro-Brillo.
Woods: This is just A plus B.
Amos: You know, I learned what it meant to be alone.