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Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.
In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.
It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.
If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.
Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.
All my experiences removed geography from my world.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.
If you want to be different, do something different.
Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.
I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.
If you looked around, you'd be glad you couldn't see.
I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America.
I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.
I don't get involved in politics. I just blow my horn.
Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
I have a major respect for nature. I'm an environmentalist.
A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.
Today only happens once in a lifetime. Make the most of it.
Your mind is a positive asset. Use it for positive thoughts.
We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.
There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.
We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.
I live a very enjoyable life. I understand what moderation is.
Once in a while, I treat myself to a cheesecake or carrot cake.
If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.
Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.
It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.
I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.
When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.
The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.
Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
Apartheid didn't impinge on music. It impinged on people's freedoms.
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.
The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.
We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
What is deeper than respect and love? That’s what we felt: veneration.