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“Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.”
“A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.”
“When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.”
“The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.”
“If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.”
Source: Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life
Source: Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life
“External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.”
“As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.”
“There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.”
Source: The Duke Ellington Reader
“Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.”
“Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.”
“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”
Source: Music is my mistress
“The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.”
“Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.”
“Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.”
“I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.”
“I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.”
“I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.”
“A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.”
“Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.”
“Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.”
“By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.”
“Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.”