You’ve got to learn your instrument.
If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.
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.
I kept thinking there’s bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn’t play it.
Master your instrument, master the music and then forget all that and just play.
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.
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.
They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
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.
I can play all I know in eight bars.
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.
I am a devout musician.
Music is your experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.
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.
Don’t play the saxophone. Let it play you.
