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• Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.
• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; ...
• If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
• I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I've grown up and I like to…
• I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony…
• That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told…
• Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.
• Jazz is the language of the emotions.
• If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.
• I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic…
• Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?
• Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play…

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