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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…
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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…
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Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from…
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Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
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The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
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I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.
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As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture…
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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…
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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,…
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Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
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Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if…
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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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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
— Diane Ackerman
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of…
— Ansel Adams
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he…
— P T Barnum
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot…
— A. R. Ammons
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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an…
— C.S. Lewis
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A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.…
— Sun Tzu
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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark…
— Sydney J. Harris
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You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
— Leigh Hunt
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
— J. G. Holland
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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists,…
— Hannah Arendt
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