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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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So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study…
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Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me…
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I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
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Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things…
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My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged…
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of…
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I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.
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It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add…
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