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If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker

Hear Me Talkin' to Ya

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Parker, Charlie. Quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Written by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff. Rinehart & Company, 1955.

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I think the main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe. That's what music is to me-it's just another way of saying this is a big, beautiful universe we live in, that's been given to us, and here's an example of just how magnificent and encompassing it is. That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music.

John Coltrane

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Coltrane, John. "John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy Answer the Jazz Critics." Interviewed by Don DeMichael. DownBeat, 12 Apr. 1962.

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Coltrane, John. Quoted in Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties, written by Scott Saul. Harvard University Press, 2003.

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Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

Duke Ellington

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Ellington, Edward Kennedy. Music is My Mistress. Doubleday & Company, 1973.

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Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker

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Parker, Charlie. Quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Written by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff. Rinehart & Company, 1955.

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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.

Louis Armstrong

Quoted in The New York Times

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Armstrong, Louis. Quoted in "Louis Armstrong, Jazz Trumpeter and Singer, Dies." Written by Alvin Krebs. The New York Times, 7 July 1971.

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I see friends shaking hands, saying, 'How do you do.' They're really saying, 'I love you.'

Louis Armstrong

What a Wonderful World

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Armstrong, Louis. What a Wonderful World. Written by George Douglas and George David Weiss. ABC Records, 1967.

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Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

Jelly Roll Morton

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Morton, Jelly Roll. Quoted in Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz", written by Alan Lomax. Grosset & Dunlap, 1950.

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Many people apparently don't trust their reactions to art or to music unless there is a verbal explanation for it. In music the only thing that matters is whether you feel it or not.

Ornette Coleman

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Coleman, Ornette. Change of the Century. Atlantic Records, 1960, liner notes.

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They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Charlie Parker

Quoted in Downbeat Magazine

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Parker, Charlie. Interviewed by Michael Levin and John S. Wilson. Downbeat Magazine, 9 Sept. 1949.

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