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Roscoe Mitchell

"I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it."

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"I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it."

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Amber Hurdle

"I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm currently trying to direct my own material."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm not trying to be the new anybody."

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Amber Hurdle

"They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail."

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Amber Hurdle

"I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Oh, who am I trying to kid? It's a madhouse. The minute those cameras go off, things just explode, everyone is just at each other in one way or another, in closets or cat fights here and there. It's nuts. You know, I can't be a part of it."

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Amber Hurdle

"I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing."

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Roscoe Mitchell
"I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it."

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Roscoe Mitchell
"I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing."

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Roscoe Mitchell
"I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything."

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Roscoe Mitchell
"I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing."

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Roscoe Mitchell
"If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that."

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Roscoe Mitchell
"I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people."

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Roscoe Mitchell
"I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance."

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Roscoe Mitchell
"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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Roscoe Mitchell
"I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations."

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