"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you."

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"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you."

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"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."

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"I feel really different from other musicians."

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"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."

Luther Allison, American Musician

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"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."

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"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."

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"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."

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"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."

Gunther Schuller, American Composer

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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."

Oscar Peterson, Canadian Musician

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"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."

Duke Ellington, American Musician

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"I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands."

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"I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got."

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"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."

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"The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body."

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"If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice."

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"Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice."

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"As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction."

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"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."

"I feel really different from other musicians."

"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."

"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."

"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."

"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."

"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."

"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."

"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."

"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."

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"I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands."

"I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got."

"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."

"The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body."

"If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice."

"Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice."

"As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction."

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