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“Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.”
“The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.”
“As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.”
“Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.”
“Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.”
“Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.”
“Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.”
“Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.”
“Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”
“When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.”
“You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!”
“I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.”
“You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.”
“All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.”
“Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.”
“I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.”
“Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.”
“One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?”
“Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.”
“You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.”
“Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.”
“I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.”
“Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.”
“Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.”