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What we play is life.
You blows who you is.
The trumpet is forceful.
[Bebop is] Chinese music.
Love is talkative passion.
Don't bullshit' just play.
Eat, sleep and drink music.
Red beans and ricely yours.
Jazz is democracy in music.
It's either hip or it ain't.
The best way to be, is to do.
When you're dead, you're done.
White folks still in the lead.
Thank the good Lord for a job.
Imitate, assimilate & innovate.
I've Got the World on a String.
Let the music speak for itself.
Jazz music is the power of now.
The best I can do is stay happy.
The bandstand is a sacred place.
Blow your life through your horn.
Jazz is what I play for a living.
Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.
You got to love to be able to play
You don't get paid for being brave!
Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.
A chord is just the name of a sound.
Ethics are more important than laws.
A musician's whole life is to listen.
Rich could play way better than Krupa.
I got possessed by music as an infant.
Never play a thing the same way twice.
If you still have to ask, shame on you
Never play anything the same way twice.
I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
A beat is a moment in the life a groove.
I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.
I don't think I have the power to forgive.
Jazz groups have to make a living any way.
I expect the audience to come up to my level.
They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.
The way we look at it, everything is a sound.
You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.
Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.
