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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.…
- The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and…
- I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.
- Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.
- I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never…
- I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
- I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.
- My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.
- I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual…
- I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture…
- 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…
- When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't.
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