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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 it.

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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…
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…
Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from…
Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.
As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture…
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we…
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime,…
Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if…
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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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… — Wynton Marsalis
Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal. — Lynn Nottage
We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances. — Kirk Hammett
Art has to offer something other than stylized despair. — Ben Lerner
Don't go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender,… — Mata Amritanandamayi
I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or… — Elizabeth Emken
Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary… — Jason Mraz
For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to do with the physical… — Dorothy Dunnett
The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something… — Frans de Waal
She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away. — Harry Chapin
Life always offer something to us. We have to be wise enough to explore it. — Anurag Prakash Ray

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