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New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional…

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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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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate… — Rainn Wilson
One of the best moments is right here (during History Tour in Copenhagen, on his birthday in 1997). Right here. It’s right… — Michael Jackson
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime,… — Wynton Marsalis
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music.… — Douglas Coupland
Every battalion has its marching songs. — Patrick MacGill
...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield... — Don McLean
I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I… — Patti LuPone
Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer. — Adrian Belew
Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still… — James Nesbitt
I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I… — Chad Smith
I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school. — Tommy Lee
My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band… — Jennifer Garner

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