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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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