Quotes by Lester Bowie - Page 1

The trumpet is forceful.
Lester Bowie / Trumpeter
Forceful
Trumpet
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A chord is just the name of a sound.
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Chords
Names
Sound
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Jazz groups have to make a living any way.
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Groups
Jazz
Way
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The way we look at it, everything is a sound.
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Looks
Sound
Way
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They're not just interested in one sort of music any more.
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A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.
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Jazz
Periods
Sells
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We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
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Importance
Importance Of Music
Our Society
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The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.
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Feels
Kind
Play
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Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.
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Music
Exercise
Jazz And Life
Memorable
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These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.
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People
Variety
Variety Of Music
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It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.
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Play
Sensitive
Trying
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You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.
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Ideas
Play
Two
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I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.
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Art
Chicago
Ensemble
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Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.
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Play
Succeed
Truthful
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And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.
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Creative
Creative Music
People
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Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.
Lester Bowie / Trumpeter
Believe
I Believe
Lying
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We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.
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Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music.
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People
Tired
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Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.
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Happens
Play
Song
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We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.
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Clock
Figures
Trying
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You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.
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Company
Internet
Majors
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You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.
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Looks
Magazines
Used
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They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.
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Consistently
Doe
Jazz
Lying
Years
Sell
Lie
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What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.
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Jazz
Trying
Years
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These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.
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Going Out
People
Records
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We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.
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People
Play
Sound
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They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that.
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Creativity
Missing
People
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I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.
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Firsts
Mean
Musician
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You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything.
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Mean
Stars
Thinking
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Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.
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Healing
Important
Long
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Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!
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Cat
Mistake
Thinking
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