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Jan Garbarek

"You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want."

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Jan Garbarek
"You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key."

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Jan Garbarek
"There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that."

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Jan Garbarek
"I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece."

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Jan Garbarek
"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing."

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Jan Garbarek
"The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation."

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Jan Garbarek
"If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit."

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