Play the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you play.
Spontaneously composed music is a counterpoint that has its own rules based on a natural order and intuitive logic.
10% of musicians make 90% of the money, while the remaining 90% of musicians make the 10% that’s left.
Jazz improvisation is an elusive genius.
While many attempts have been made to define Jazz, what’s the point really. Jazz is to be experienced – period.
Music is a calling that you must bring your best to, whether listening, practicing or performing.
What’s tied Jazz together is its foundation in the Blues, a reliance on group interplay and the unique phenomenon of spontaneous improvisation.
Learn the tunes by playing the masters, learn expression by playing yourself.
While many forms of music may use the dynamic of improvisation, Jazz exemplifies the unique characteristic of collective improvisation.
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time!
The true value of this music lies in an artist’s individual creativity and that unique process of expression which is Jazz.
Jazz affirms the noblest aspirations of character, individual discipline, perseverance and innovation.
Practice as if you are the worst, play as if you are the best!
Hipness is what it is. But sometimes hipness is what it ain’t.
Jazz improvisation is the art of collective negotiated expression.
Miles Davis and John Coltrane were so cool, if alive today global warming wouldn’t be an issue.
Jazz – it takes passion to make it happen!
Ideologies separate us. Art brings us together.
It is better to be felt than to be heard.
My neighbors always listen to very hip Jazz… whether they like it or not.
One shouldn’t be in the habit of quoting oneself.
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