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• Learn the changes, then forget them.
• Bop is no love-child of jazz.
• Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a…
• I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using…
• I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni,…
• When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was…
• Man, there's no boundary line to art!
• Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
• Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.…
• You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand,…
• Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
• I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could…

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