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Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet hurt.

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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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Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing… — Arthur Miller
It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a… — Philip Connors
Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet… — Wynton Marsalis
The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus. — James McBride
Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up… — Maya Angelou
If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to… — Eduardo Galeano
There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight… — Brenda Blethyn
DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the… — Jasper Fforde
I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down. — Henry Rollins
And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not… — Diana Gabaldon
My wife changes the way that I dress. She makes me dress nicer than I want to dress. I feel like I… — Adam Driver

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