"Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life."
"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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Source: Mark Nepo (2000). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have”, p.388, Conari Press
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