Wayne Shorter Quotes
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Music is interior decoration.
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The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind…
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Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I…
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No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?
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It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.
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Composing is improvisation slowed down.
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To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.
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I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!
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You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where…
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Clouds float in the same pattern only once.
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If all you have is music, then you don't have music
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You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.
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