Vivid statements of Kozlov in one of the last interviews

About my life: “I am 90. I am an honored and people's artist, the club of my name is working and developing - all dreams came true and everything succeeded.

I was 6 years old, but I remember very well the feeling of the end of my childhood, but not the end of the world. I immediately understood the seriousness of my mind and realized the need to tolerate everything that could happen, to take responsibility for my behavior, without being capricious or causing additional trouble to my loved ones.

The concert at the Museum of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Ulyanovsk in the early 80s is perhaps the most amazing place. On virgin soil in the summer of 1958, where we were sent for construction, the saxophone was just a salvation for me in those conditions. At nightfall, I would go to study in an empty abandoned cistern, climb inside, sit on a drawer and play for hours. I had an assistant there, a student from our course Zhenya Kulaga. Upon learning that I was taking a saxophone to the virgin, he took a small drum and a plate with him to accompany me. He wasn’t a drummer, but he loved music and wanted to learn how to play. When I finished playing my exercises, he would climb up to me with his drum and plate. We started playing jazz together. It turned out to be a small concert for all the aspiring virgins, who were located outside, around the cistern, and listened regardless of the degree of love for jazz.”.

On the biggest pride and biggest disappointment: The most proud of my name club is the dream of an idiot. And the main disappointment is Gorbachev and the collapse of the USSR.

From childhood, I adored everything that bore the imprint of a unique, sophisticated style, destroyed by the First World War.