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- Music is the framework around the silence.
- It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I…
- A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear…
- For me, music and life are all about style.
- Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
- In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up…
- Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
- You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
- Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.
- I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked…
- My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
- ...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the…
- I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other,…
- Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all…
- In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.
- There are no wrong notes.
- Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
- We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.
- I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much…
- The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play
- In music, silence is more important than sound.
- What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask…
- See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he…
- Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
- Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
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