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Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.
Kenny G
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Saxophonist
Mean
Play
Records
Song
Technique
Great Better People
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The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Music
Argument
Jazz
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Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.
Sonny Rollins
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Saxophonist
Music
Ability
Jazz
Spiritual
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We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.
Branford Marsalis
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Saxophonist
Art
Desire
Unique
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Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
Gerry Mulligan
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Saxophonist
Orchestra
Alto
French
Extent
Great Extent
Tenor
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Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Doe
Individual
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Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Icons
Jerry
Originals
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I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.
Sonny Rollins
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Saxophonist
Alive
Lasting
Writing
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Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.
Bennie Wallace
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Saxophonist
Art
Music
Expression
Self
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Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
Charlie Parker
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Saxophonist
Music
Bullshit
Jazz And Life
Play
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Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
John Coltrane
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Saxophonist
Bigs
Important
Listening
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I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.
Sonny Rollins
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Saxophonist
Jazz
Obligation
Play
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It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.
Wayne Shorter
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Saxophonist
Ends
Life Is
Lines
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Jazz is a fighter. The word 'jazz' means to me, 'I dare you. Let's jump into the unknown!'
Wayne Shorter
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Saxophonist
Dare
Fighter
Jazz
Unknown
Means
Word
Jump
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They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker
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Saxophonist
Art
Music
Men
Jazz And Life
Teach
Art Music Man
Boundary
Line
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Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.
Dave Koz
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Saxophonist
Example
Hero
My Hero
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What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
Gerry Mulligan
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Saxophonist
Music
Jazz
Jazz Music
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Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.
Gerry Mulligan
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Saxophonist
Mean
Piano
Player
Closer
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I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
Gerry Mulligan
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Saxophonist
Facility
Kind
Mulligans
Shouting
Trumpets
Trumpet
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Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.
Jimmy Heath
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Saxophonist
Currents
Research
Teaching
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A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
Stan Getz
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Saxophonist
Music
Conversation
Good Conversation
Ideas
Interacting
Jazz
Quartet
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This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear
Gerry Mulligan
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Saxophonist
Bears
Hard Life
Mulligans
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I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.
Kenny G
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Saxophonist
Fine
Jazz
Mean
Thinking
Word
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I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Audience
Play
Sex
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I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.
Sonny Rollins
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Saxophonist
Appreciation
Smile
Problem
Thinking
General
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It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing
Benny Carter
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Saxophonist
Littles
Made
Thinking
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I feel like collaboration in music has allowed me to grow musically beyond my wildest dreams.
Dave Koz
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Saxophonist
Dream
Collaboration
Grows
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The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
Gerry Mulligan
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Saxophonist
Concerts
Play
Starting Over
Symphony
Piece
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The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field
Gerry Mulligan
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Saxophonist
Fields
Incredibles
Mulligans
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This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.
Gerry Mulligan
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Saxophonist
Hard
Transient
Life Human Human Being
Bear
Human
Gotten
Human Being
Point
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What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.
Dewey Redman
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Saxophonist
Play
Sound
Technique
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I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.
Gerry Mulligan
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Saxophonist
Guy
Mulligans
Other Guys
Attracts
Melodic
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A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!
Gerry Mulligan
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Saxophonist
Musician
Player
Records
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The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field.
Gerry Mulligan
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Saxophonist
Enjoying
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Composer
People
Thinking
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Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.
Phil Woods
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Saxophonist
Art
Men
Smooth Jazz
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I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.
Sonny Rollins
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Saxophonist
Music
Jazz
Making A Living
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I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.
Sonny Rollins
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Saxophonist
Achieve
Firsts
Thinking
Trying
Music I Am Person
Musically
Thinks
Valid
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It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.
Steve Lacy
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Saxophonist
Continuing
Ifs
Single
Sound
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I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
Steve Lacy
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Saxophonist
Heard
Pieces
Play
Saxophone
Duke
Fell
Piece
Soprano
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If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
Branford Marsalis
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Saxophonist
Ifs
Sound
Stations
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The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra
Gerry Mulligan
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Saxophonist
Orchestra
Saxophone
Solo
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God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.
John Coltrane
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Saxophonist
Breathe
Feels
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Myself People Always
Originally
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Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
Sonny Rollins
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Saxophonist
Music
Artist
Comfortable
Comfortable Life
Jazz
Seeking
Artists
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If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.
Branford Marsalis
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Saxophonist
Fun
Okay
People
Me Fun People
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The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.
Gerry Mulligan
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Saxophonist
Instruments
Orchestra
Solo
Except
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If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.
Stan Getz
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Saxophonist
Human Voice
Play
Saxophone
Voice
Instrument
Sings
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When you play with Miles, you are on your own, and then it's you who decides what to contribute.
Wayne Shorter
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Saxophonist
Miles
Contribute
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I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.
Dave Koz
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Saxophonist
Opportunity
Credit
Grows
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