"Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life."
"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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Source: Fictional character: Nick Condon. Blood on the Sun, www.imdb.com. 1945.
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