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“Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.”
“The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.”
“The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.”
“The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.”
“My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.”
“Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.”
“All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.”
“Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.”
“It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.”
“When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.”
“I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.”
“You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.”
“I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.”
“I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.”
“You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.”
“I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.”
“I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.”
“I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.”
“If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.”
“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.”
“What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?”
“To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.”
“When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.”
“If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?”