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I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
Kenny G
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Saxophonist
Communication
Communicate
Hope Music Me
Anyway
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The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.
Steve Lacy
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Saxophonist
Monk
People
Threat
People More Something
Catch
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All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body--like radiation, cancer, and all.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Cancer
Mind
Suffering
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I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.
Charlie Parker
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Saxophonist
Likes
Swings
Use
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All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Cancer
Elements
Environment
Human Beings
Radiation
Treats
Affects
Beings
Planet
Suffer
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The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal.
Dave Koz
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Saxophonist
Long
People
Wish
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I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.
Kenny G
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Saxophonist
Accolades
Approval
Life Music Me
Seek
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The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.
Stan Getz
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Saxophonist
Body
Challenges
Imperfect
Intonation
Saxophone
Your Body
As Far As
Challenge
Instrument
Outside
Sing
Soprano
Tenor
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To me, a song is not finished. To me, there's no such thing as a finished anything. All of Beethoven's nine symphonies, to me, are one. I think of it as having no beginning and no end.
Wayne Shorter
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Saxophonist
Beethoven
Symphonies
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I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.
Sonny Rollins
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Saxophonist
Inspiration
Jazz
Long
Thinking
Great Long People
Hear People
Lester
Recording
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I've been devoting quite a bit of my time to harmonic studies on my own, in libraries and places like that. I've found you've got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.
John Coltrane
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Saxophonist
Found
Light
My Own
My Time
Old Things
Quite
Time Look New
Bit
Old
Harmonic
Libraries
Places
Quite A Bit
Studies
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There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.
John Coltrane
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Saxophonist
Beautiful
Doe
People
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Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.
John Coltrane
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Saxophonist
Music
Men
Knowing
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My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.
Sonny Rollins
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Saxophonist
Islands
Melody
Mother
Tunes
Adapt
Island
Thomas
Trademark
Tune
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I'm making strides to have dialogue with life. I'm walking down a garden path, something like that. And you're looking at the trees, and then you start to look at them through your inner eye.
Wayne Shorter
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Saxophonist
Dialogue
Eye
Garden
Path
Life Path Your
Inner
Strides
Trees
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Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play musicians come to meet me, that is a great compliment to me. I am honored.
Dewey Redman
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Saxophonist
Idols
Play
Son
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Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Elementary School
Fantastic
Saxophone
Solo
Elementary
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I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.
John Coltrane
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Saxophonist
Awakened
Bird
Dizzy
Exploration
Musical
Theoretical
Thinking
Aspects
Began
Structures
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I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.
Sonny Rollins
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Saxophonist
Beautiful
Oasis
Thinking
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I would pass this music store on the way to school, and there was a clarinet in the window, a second-hand one. And I kept asking my parents to buy it, and eventually they did. I still have it now.
Wayne Shorter
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Saxophonist
Clarinet
Second Hand
Window
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The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.
Wayne Shorter
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Saxophonist
Art
Creativity
Doors
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I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Baton
Beard
Hair
Long
Long Hair
New Orleans
Rouge
Tragic
Time Good Me
Although
Horn
Orleans
Threw
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In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.
Gerry Mulligan
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Saxophonist
Available
Bird
Heard
Accidental
In Fact
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I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company.
Branford Marsalis
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Saxophonist
Records
Selling
Money Start People
Invested
Suspect
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Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
Branford Marsalis
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Saxophonist
Inspiring
Men
Humans
Imperfect
Jazz
Perfect
Right Man
Trouble
Classical
Performance
Note
Quest
Reasons
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There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.
Branford Marsalis
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Saxophonist
Conclusion
Pacing
Just Kind
Motion
Our Music
Preferred
Rushed
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Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It is created to be enjoyed, not understood like you read a blueprint.
Cannonball Adderley
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Saxophonist
Entertainment
Important
Understanding
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I have often read critical pieces where the critic said that what the composer was trying to do didn't come off. I have wondered what the critic meant if he didn't know what the composer was trying to do.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Pieces
Said
Trying
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Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Business Relationship
Company
Record Companies
Records
Companies
Personal Relationship
Relationships
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When they say 'jazz,' I'm thinking of a word called 'the creative process.' It intersects every vein and tributary, avenue, path, that everyone's living. It crosses through there, but it's been contained.
Wayne Shorter
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Saxophonist
Creative
Creative Process
Crosses
Jazz
Path
Process
Avenue
Contained
Word
They Say
Vein
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The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.
Branford Marsalis
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Saxophonist
Average
Give Me
Giving
Jazz
Play
Standards
Me Know Go
Label
Suggest
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I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Might
Record Companies
Records
Thinking
Tomorrow
Companies
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A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!
Cannonball Adderley
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Saxophonist
Music
Men
Player
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That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Play
Talking
Thinking
Play Music
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It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Standing
Bum
Work Feel Doing
Valid
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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.
Charlie Parker
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Saxophonist
Art
Music
Men
Horny
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This solo piano exploration (Beyond The Sky) by Rob Schwimmer is full of passion and love...his execution and ideas flow with a beautiful sense of freedom that captures you from his first phrase to the last.
Joe Lovano
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Saxophonist
Beautiful
Passion
Sky
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I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Los Angeles
Wind
Angeles
Drum
Instrument
Los
Plays
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I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.
John Coltrane
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Saxophonist
Human Experience
Particular
Time Experience Music
Itself
Express
Happening
Human Being
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I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained a lot of young people, and I've learned my lessons well. I'd like to keep the flame burning.
Phil Woods
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Saxophonist
Flames
Pride
Warrior
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
Mother
Shining
Shoes
Box
Instrument
Save
Shine
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After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.
Ornette Coleman
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Saxophonist
California
Hard Times
Player
Saxophone
Texas
Writing
Ended
Hard Time
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He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and that was it. You were on your own. You had to be very independent being around John [Coltrane].
Pharoah Sanders
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Saxophonist
Music
Independent
Jazz
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Theo Wanne has done it again!!!!!! He has brought a new dimension in mouthpieces that will not only stand the test of time, but will be a benchmark mouthpiece for many, many years to come! The bar has been raised.
Jeff Coffin
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Saxophonist
Bars
Done
Years
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I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.
John Coltrane
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Saxophonist
Music
Communication
Emotional
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Considering the great heritage in music that we have - the work of the giants of the past, the present, and the promise of those who are to come - I feel that we have every reason to face the future optimistically.
John Coltrane
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Saxophonist
Giants
Past
Promise
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Sometimes you have to take a thing when it comes and be glad. I first began to feel this way in '57, when I started to get myself together musically, although at the time I was working academically and technically.
John Coltrane
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Saxophonist
Glad
Academically
Time Myself Together
Although
Began
Technically
Musically
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If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.
Branford Marsalis
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Saxophonist
Elusive
Melody
Musician
People
Song
Love People Understand
Beat
Musicians
Popular
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The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
Branford Marsalis
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Saxophonist
Kids
America
American Music
Concerts
Honestly
People
Music People American
Music People See
Anyway
Biggest Problem
They Say
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That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles.
Dave Koz
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Saxophonist
Beautiful
Rap
Rocks
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