"The better it gets, the fewer of us know it."
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"I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes."
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"Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life."
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"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
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"I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands."
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"Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization."
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"It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'"
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"...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town."
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"Music is the framework around the silence."
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"A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me."
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"The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new."
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"I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking."
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"Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art."
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"When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open."
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"Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles."
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"Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are."
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"You don't have to live the blues to play the blues."
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"Music is Magic. Magic is Life"
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"Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music."
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"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
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