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I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.
Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
I have to play every day in order to keep absolute control over my form.
When you're with another tea smoker it makes you feel a special kinship.
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.
I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.
I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.
I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.
To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you forever.
Whenever I ravel I seek the benefits of this great profession of chiropractic
Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us!
I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.
The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.
I like kissable lips. A woman's lips must say, 'Come here and kiss me, Pops.'
Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.
I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.
I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.
A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story.
Well, I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna keep playin'
My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.
Unless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you.
Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
I try to put a lot of our music in my music - by that I mean of American music.
I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!
The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.
Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.
Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.
The less judgment the more curiosity, and the more curiosity the more creativity.
I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything.
These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.
People have enough ideas. The real question is "Which ideas are you going to use?".
This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.
I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.
Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.
The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.
The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.
Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.
Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.
It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.
Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.
Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.