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Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

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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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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. — Phillips Brooks
It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life. — Unknown Author
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As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality… — Pema Chodron
Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original… — BrenÃ© Brown
Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are,… — Shirley MacLaine
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right… — Wallace D. Wattles
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come… — Maurice Maeterlinck

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