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“Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way.”

“Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.”

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Author:Charlie Parker

“To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.”

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Author:Nina Simone

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

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Author:Charlie Parker

“It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”

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Author:Dizzy Gillespie

“Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.”

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Author:Duke Ellington

“Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.”

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Author:Duke Ellington

“I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.”

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Author:Duke Ellington

“Never play anything the same way twice.”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”

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Author:Ornette Coleman

“If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.”

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Author:Pete Fountain

“Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.”

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Author:Charles Mingus

“Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.”

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Author:Toots Thielemans

“The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.”

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Author:John Lewis

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

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Author:Count Basie

“Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.”

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Author:Oscar Peterson

“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 saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.”

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Author:Stan Getz

“When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.”

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Author:Rahsaan Roland Kirk