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• Make the drummer sound good.
• Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
• Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
• To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a…
• A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator,…
• Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.
• A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing…
• There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language…
• If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.
• Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.
• If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find…
• If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear…

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