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- I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men.…
- Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate…
- We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
- The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say…
- Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try…
- Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain…
- I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco…
- If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not -…
- In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about…
- Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of…
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