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“I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through.”

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Author:Max Roach

“There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.”

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Book:Music and imagination

Source: Music and imagination

“Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.”

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Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.”

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Author:Cassandra Wilson

“Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.”

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Author:Charlie Parker

“Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.”

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Book:The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

“My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall, and the orchestra was playing. When the show started, the spotlight was sharp on this one man (Andres Segovia) and he had sombrero on and his guitar propped up like this and, oh man ... he was a master ! - I really heard it. That one guitar sounded like a whole orchestra to me.”

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Author:B. B. King

“One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.”

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Author:Tommy Emmanuel