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Music Quotes by Dexter Gordon
- Music is a reservoir... of sounds.
- Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
- What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.
- If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums…
- I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.
- If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.
- Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.
- When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.
- Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future.
- The music scene is more competitive in the States.
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- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
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