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Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it.…

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Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of…
And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer…
Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from…
Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.
As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture…
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we…
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime,…
Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if…
I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed…

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Our ideals are our better selves. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That… — James MacGregor Burns
A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel,… — Wynton Marsalis
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of… — William Wordsworth
Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave… — Jonathan Franzen
You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal… — Connie Willis
Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. And there… — Cassandra Clare
Do not regret too much the choices you have made in the past, Gabriel," she said, aware that she was using his… — Cassandra Clare
Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. — Cassandra Clare
We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves — Cassandra Clare
People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves. — Terry McMillan

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