Music is your experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.
Don’t play the saxophone. Let it play you.
I can play all I know in eight bars.
Master your instrument, master the music and then forget all that and just play.
They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
I kept thinking there’s bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn’t play it.
I am a devout musician.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
You’ve got to learn your instrument.
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you dont live it, it wont come out of your horn. They teach you theres a boundary line to music. But, man, theres no boundary line to art.
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That’s when I was born.
You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
The time is now.
In Kansas City joints ran 9pm-5am. Pay was a $1.25 a night but somebody special like Count Basie could command $1.50.
Once I could play what I heard inside me, that’s when I was born.
It’s not all smoke and mirrors. Some of it comes from books.
If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.
