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- Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
- 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…
- Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
- I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed - things like…
- Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose…
- The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.
- Jazz is democracy in music.
- Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.
- No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a…
- What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
- I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.
- The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and…
- The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an…
- People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy…
- Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
- I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
- Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get…
- I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.
- I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.
- Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
- The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.
- Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try…
- Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain…
- I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my…
- 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…
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