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“I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.”

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“"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."”

“If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!”

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“If I knew what it was going to look like, I wouldnt be so excited to be a part of it. Jazz is a music of surprise; its a music of spontaneity. I think jazz musicians live--I know I do--for being surprised and not knowing whats going to come next.”

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Author:Joshua Redman

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace.”

“If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

“I love music. My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented !”

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Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.”

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Author:Thelonious Monk

“The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.”

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Author:Charlie Trotter

“Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.”

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Author:Miles Davis

“People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your sound like Wes Montgomery did, the jazz fans and the critics are down on you!”

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Author:George Benson

“I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.”

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Author:Kenneth Rexroth

“I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.”

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Author:Anthony Braxton

“Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.”

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Author:Francoise Sagan

“'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.”

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Author:Artie Shaw

“Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.”

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Author:Miles Kington

“Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and you can function in an area without much information.”

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Author:Paul Bley

“In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.”

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Author:Miles Davis

“I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked the sound, then fine, but I'm not interested in being a jazz musician. I don't consider myself a jazz musician. I don't have anything to do with that word.”

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Author:Pharoah Sanders

“Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music. A musician's responsibility is to get as much of his art across as possible. Musicians used to be kept when only the rich could afford art, but now practically everyone can afford radios, stereo equipment, concert tickets, etc. A musician must learn to communicate to survive.”

“Well, I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna keep playin'”

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Author:Clark Terry

“Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.”

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Author:Evan Parker

“The jazz musician's function is to feel.”

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Author:Lennie Tristano

“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”

“Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.”

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Author:Colin Greenwood

“But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value, it's not just loud. It doesn't have that violent connotation to it. I wanted to be a jazz musician so bad, but I really couldn't. There was no way I could figure out to learn how to play.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!”

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Author:Toots Thielemans

“You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.”

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Author:Sonny Rollins

“We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.”

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Author:Chad Smith

“One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.”

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Author:Branford Marsalis

“A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.”

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Author:Steve Lacy

“What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.”

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Author:Marc Myers

“The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people: people who can't read a note of music, people who have incredible classical skills, blues and jazz musicians, pop artists, visual artists, dancers and actors. Learn from people who are creative in a different way to you and you'll keep evolving.”

“My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.”

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Author:Ishmael Reed

“Man, there's no boundary line to art!”

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.”

“In my view a jazz musician is a great musician”

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Author:Michael Parkinson

“Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.”

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Author:Herbie Hancock

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”

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Author:Duke Ellington

“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.”

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Author:Duke Ellington

“I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.”

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Author:Molly Ringwald

“Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.”

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Book:Conversations with Ralph Ellison

Source: Conversations with Ralph Ellison

“I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.”

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Author:Sonny Rollins

“I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.”

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Author:Laura Mvula

“If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.”

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Author:Coleman Hawkins

“Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.”

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Author:Andy Richter

“I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a jazz musician and play at a restaurant for cash. And I've done some background vocals for recording artists.”

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Author:Nicole Beharie

“I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.”

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Author:Donald Byrd

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